Find the Largest files on the Server

in #blog2 months ago

One of my servers is eating disk rapidly, and I have found out the largest files using the following command:

find / -type f -exec du -Sh {} + 2>/dev/null | sort -rh | head -n 50

And it outputs:

root@anothervps:/var/www# find / -type f -exec du -Sh {} + 2>/dev/null | sort -rh | head -n 50 2.3G /var/lib/mysql/wordpress/wp_actionscheduler_logs.ibd 1.5G /var/www/database/wordpress.sql 1.1G /swapfile 657M /var/lib/mysql/undo_001 497M /var/lib/mysql/undo_002 461M /var/lib/mysql/ibdata1 112M /root/.nvm/versions/node/v22.11.0/bin/node 98M /var/www/steem/cache/delegatee/steem.json 92M /var/lib/snapd/cache/e1141556bb9bbee35d351e0ed471399be3d626596eae24b00ff355b6b2571d15d095c167eaefea9f6c01d88a001ef968 82M /snap/lxd/32662/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 71M /var/lib/snapd/seed/snaps/lxd_21029.snap 65M /usr/sbin/mysqld 64M /var/lib/snapd/cache/6474d797418aa9a13ce8d677812f271ae61a9e3b6a1705c940f088f0132f28a57fc60e0ebcb5787722584c476a106d33 57M /var/log/journal/4df6358c6d4c46e7a6975e1457578441/system.journal 56M /var/lib/snapd/seed/snaps/core18_2074.snap 56M /var/lib/snapd/cache/c2a1d713ab68e8f171fe65d14ca8f68650d5e139dc8d86aad32b66e143a53a282e6900f01755f879859774632e0549ef 56M /var/lib/snapd/cache/88e7814a436b75aba650cc8bc0044fbd2b8f62c1645e7b04b0c9e76c07fb4b173c484ebabe79606a39da44ee10d8a762 56M /var/lib/snapd/cache/81a8f7910088d240a6cc6c972422c0474c44479c637c3f1ea97dd9cdb3239a65ce34c9d9700227d54f9c7ecbc2b537e0 56M /var/lib/snapd/cache/590bffa7f4e8e5676279f8a5ec3f846d5036e2a23006ee19d728e9e45fa5eafc52865464dd8fce1109a96cf5424c84a6 56M /var/lib/snapd/cache/213ebf3106ddcf16ca800b136f60b41853bf68e3b6f99287f024f2a24e662c528aeb9e2b17bcdb53936b660616f708c6 56M /var/cache/apt/srcpkgcache.bin 56M /var/cache/apt/pkgcache.bin 53M /var/www/wordpress.sql 51M /var/lib/snapd/cache/ccde239031b5fdf884f240b4f78cbef5e41a045e2ea51c89b7bb55fa8af517762326c5d04be8d2fd77b9efbbd6d526a2 51M /var/lib/snapd/cache/11398a49b9e36ef9da377b1fdf39d6ee68f6627978c991725e1762eac3802e92ecb555484960643ac9beb63ad52fa1fb 50M /var/lib/snapd/cache/669c0702e38f27416558846bd40c891e552192bad0164a809bbd954ec35d73b8f6134c8f5121ebc88f6b385fa7e2c73a 49M /var/lib/apt/lists/azure.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_focal_universe_binary-amd64_Packages 47M /var/lib/mecab/dic/ipadic-utf8/sys.dic 37M /var/lib/mysql/mysql.ibd 37M /var/lib/mecab/dic/ipadic/sys.dic 36M /var/www/anothervps.com/js/ace-builds/.git/objects/pack/pack-17da7273a0dcaa2903e0aa656e3ddf2a4fa0cff8.pack 36M /boot/initrd.img-5.15.0-1089-azure 36M /boot/initrd.img-5.15.0-1074-azure 33M /var/lib/snapd/seed/snaps/snapd_12398.snap 29M /snap/snapd/25577/usr/lib/snapd/snapd 28M /var/log/apache2/error_anothervps.log.1 28M /root/.nvm/.cache/bin/node-v22.11.0-linux-x64/node-v22.11.0-linux-x64.tar.xz 27M /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libicudata.so.66.1 27M /usr/lib/linux-azure-5.15-tools-5.15.0-1089/perf 27M /usr/lib/linux-azure-5.15-tools-5.15.0-1074/perf 27M /snap/lxd/32662/bin/lxd 27M /boot/initrd.img-5.8.0-1039-azure 26M /var/lib/apt/lists/azure.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_focal_universe_i18n_Translation-en 26M /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/9/cc1plus 25M /var/log/journal/4df6358c6d4c46e7a6975e1457578441/system@fe29cca720a9428bbbd34ff0abcd8f0f-00000000012376c3-000641d574b0223e.journal 25M /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/9/cc1 24M /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/9/lto1 23M /var/lib/apt/lists/azure.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_focal-updates_restricted_binary-amd64_Packages 23M /usr/lib/snapd/snapd 23M /usr/lib/linux-azure-5.8-tools-5.8.0-1039/perf

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