Here’s a simple script I’m using to locate big directories (larger than 1GB):
du -h | grep "^ *[0-9][0-9.]*G"
The output looks like this:
jan 242013
sep 182012
On unix systems we often talk about the server’s load. The load can be found by using the w command or with various other tools. The important thing to know is that load is made up of 3 numbers and will look similar to this
load average: 0.21, 0.24, 0.20