54 GB in /var/log!! -- UPDATE

[Christopher K. Johnson]

Beartooth wrote:
> 	I'd like to pipe that into top, or some such, to make it display 
> only the files of 100K and up; but trying to read the man page for top, 
> as usual for powerful commands, makes me think of standing at the foot of 
> a huge cliff of ice
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

Chris

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