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How do I get Ubuntu's "Disk Usage Analyzer" to show me the hidden files?
It tells me my home dir uses 3GB, but only accounts for 525MB (the results of du -shc *). Can I get it to show me the other files that are using the space?
Stephen
Posted 2010-08-18T22:54:36.873
Reputation: 283
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You can use this (it does not match files with a single letter after the '.')
du -shc .??* *
wikipedia also mentions a regex style usage which should work for every file/folder name
du -shc .[!.]* *
zakkak
Posted 2010-08-18T22:54:36.873
Reputation: 293
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Call du with the whole home directory rather than every single file:
du -sh ~
That's because the * doesn't match the hidden ones.
cYrus
Posted 2010-08-18T22:54:36.873
Reputation: 18 102
This does not list all the files in ~. – lindhe – 2017-06-02T08:38:00.173
@lindhe care to elaborate? – cYrus – 2017-06-03T12:39:04.393
Sorry for the ambiguity. It displays the aggregate size of all files (both plain and hidden) in ~. It does not however list the size of each file and subdirectory in ~. I assumed that was what OP wanted, since du -sch * would do that (but only for plain files). – lindhe – 2017-06-03T13:09:31.987
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I got a similar problem today. My solution:
du -h | awk -F/ '{if (NF<3) {print $1"/"$2}}'
du -h gives us the complete usage of current directory including all subdirectories recursively.
| awk -F/ '{if (NF<3) {print $1"/"$2}}' filters the output and prints no subdirectories.
If you want to see the files in addition to the directories you can use this:
du -ah | awk -F/ '{if (NF<3) {print $1"/"$2}}'
If you want to see exactly which files use the most disk space you can add | sort -h at the end.
birru
Posted 2010-08-18T22:54:36.873
Reputation: 11
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When you do
du -shc *
it excludes everything that starts with a dot.
Try:
du -shc ~
instead
Paused until further notice.
Posted 2010-08-18T22:54:36.873
Reputation: 86 075
One of the common culprits for chewing space under your home dir is .TRASH, the default trash directory used by distributions like Ubuntu. – John T – 2010-08-19T01:25:18.113
1Strangely, this shows 150GB (which I think is the total of all my filesystem usage) - and none of the sub-directories or files. Pretty useless really – Stephen – 2010-08-19T01:49:23.483
@Stephen: you may have symlinks that are throwing things off. Try adding the -D option. – Paused until further notice. – 2010-08-19T06:46:36.793
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Other possibilities for unaccounted for space (other than the very valid point about . files and * expansion others suggested) include the 5% of the disk that is occasionally reserved for root (relatively common) and files hidden underneath a mount point.
For that last, imagine you have a folder /tmp/somerandom/raccoon/. In this folder you put 2.5G of video. You then mount your USB disk on /tmp/somerandom/. You can no longer access the file/files that you put in /tmp/somerandom/raccoon, but they still take up disk space. du doesn't see them, but df does.
Slartibartfast
Posted 2010-08-18T22:54:36.873
Reputation: 6 899
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Disk Usage Analyzer does not show files (as I would expect) - if the % below a certain directory don't show up, then open the folder and look at the files individually.
Stephen
Posted 2010-08-18T22:54:36.873
Reputation: 283
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You can use "find" + "du" to see the hidden files and folders:
find ~ -maxdepth 1 -exec du -hs {} \;
DiFS
Posted 2010-08-18T22:54:36.873
Reputation: 1
dualready shows all files, it doesn't hide anything. What exactly are the 3GB and 525MB figures reported for? – Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' – 2010-08-19T00:00:28.1601You should try 'ncdu' which is generally available in your distro's repositories, its text interface is great. – Shadok – 2012-04-04T16:02:43.703
You may also need to run as root, and not with sudo but with actual root, via su root. – Mikhail – 2012-11-07T14:44:54.473