Finding the largest sized directory

One of our servers keeps running out of disk space. To address this, we needed to find out which folders had the largest size.

On ubuntu server 10.04LTS, this is how we found the directories with the greatest size:

du -m /var/log | sort -n -r | head -n 10


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