Disk Space Usage – Linux
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What’s taking up all the space?
A command prompt try some of the examples I list below:
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du –help
This shows all the parameters you can supply the “du” command with. Typical combinations I use are as follows:
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du -h #human readable characters
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du -c #grand total displayed at end
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du * -s #summarise all folders
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du * -sc #summarise and total
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du * -scm #summarise, total, Mb
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du /home/mydir #show the disk usage of a certain directory
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du -ah | sort -n #display
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du -sk .[A-z]* *|sort -n #all files and subs within current directory
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du /home/mydir -sk .[A-z]* *|sort -n
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du * -scm | awk ‘{print $1 "Mb >>> " $2}’ | sort -n #sorted and in a Mbytes
You can muck around with displaying it in Megabytes (-m), Bytes (-b), but there are limitations, like files under 1Mb get shown as 1Mb…
Another alternative I came across is:
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find . -size +1M
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find . -size +10M
If you’re interested in display usage a partition level, try the following commands:
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df -h -T
Tags: command promp, disk, Linux, usage