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To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, "Jack Stone" <jacks@sage-american.com>
Subject: Re: Monitoring directories
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On Wed, 30 Apr 2014 00:33:36 +0200, Jack Stone <jacks@sage-american.com>  
wrote:

> I have no doubt this list can answer this question, perhaps with more  
> than one way to do it.
>
> I need to be able to monitor the sub-directories in /usr & /var so the  
> sizes don't get too large. I do rotate log files and those are not of a  
> concern.
>
> I realize I can run this command line, but gives way too much info not  
> needed. I would like to be able to have a set of commands to spit out a  
> list of sub-dirs that exceed a certain size only.
>
> This give a full list:
> # du -hs * | sort -n
> ....gives me a sorted list of ALL directory sizes.
>
> How can I tell it or another cmd set to only list those subs that exceed  
> a certain size?
>
> Appreciate any help.
> Thanks!
>

du -t <size>
du -t 100M


Michael