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When it happens that your VPS is eating data by the second and there is disk read/write issues one port of call you are bound to visit is searching and identifying large files on your system.
Now, you would have been forgiven for thinking this is a complicated procedure considering some Linux Bash solutions for fairly simple things, but no. Linux Bash wins again!
du -sh /path/to/folder/* | sort -rh
Here, du is getting the sizes and sort is organising them, -h is telling du to display human-readable format.
The output should be something like this:
2.3T /path/to/directory
1.8T /path/to/other
It does take a while to organise as it is being done recursively however given 3-5mins and most scenarios will be fine.