On Tue, 28 Oct 2008 13:10:15 -0400, Christopher K. Johnson wrote: > Beartooth wrote: >> I'd like to pipe that into top, or some such, to make it display >> only the files of 100K and up; [...] > How about looking at the largest 30 files and directories there sorted > by size in megabytes? > > cd /var/log > du -ms * | sort -rn | head -n 30 Aha! Yes, absolutely. Thank you much. I get : ]# du -ms * | sort -rn | head -n 30 19 audit 1 yum.log 1 Xorg.setup.log 1 Xorg.5.log.old 1 Xorg.5.log 1 Xorg.4.log.old 1 Xorg.4.log 1 Xorg.3.log.old 1 Xorg.3.log 1 Xorg.2.log.old 1 Xorg.2.log 1 Xorg.1.log.old 1 Xorg.1.log 1 Xorg.0.log.old 1 Xorg.0.log 1 wtmp-20081001 1 wtmp 1 setroubleshoot 1 secure-20081026 1 secure-20081019 1 secure-20081012 1 secure-20081005 1 secure 1 samba 1 rpmpkgs-20081026 1 rpmpkgs-20081019 1 rpmpkgs-20081012 1 rpmpkgs-20081005 1 rpmpkgs 1 qtparted-20081025-10h53m26s.log IOW, nothing like what I was getting yesterday ... -- Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines