Needed to clean up a client server recently that had 10GB of ‘stuff’ somewhere on the server. Since I had SSH access this was actually super easy. Use:

du -a -h /home | sort -n -r | head -n 10

Change /home to whatever directory on the server you want to start from and you’ll get a list of the 10 biggest files ordered by size.

Then go delete them.

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