Where did all my disk space go?


Update -

Thanks to @pgr0ss for the tip, you can use -k instead of –block-size!


On my cloud servers, I’m always asking myself:

Where the !@#$% did all my disk space go?

And I know somewhere, sometime down the road, future self will be thanking present self for blogging this as a reminder.

To get the top <n> offending directories on your filesystem (replace <n> with a number)

via http://linuxreviews.org/quicktips/chkdirsizes/