How to Check Disk Space and Directory Space in Linux

Thu, 26 Mar 2009 10:21:50 -0700

Surprisingly, I often run into the problem of running out of disk space in Linux.

Here are some simple commands to check what consumes the most space:

"df -k" shows the percentage of disk consumption for each partition
"du --max-depth 1 -h /" shows how much space each directory under "/" consumes in megabytes
"du -sm * | sort -n" does the same thing as the previous command

stackoverflow has a good discussion as well.

Kai Mai's Blog - Take Back the Web - Nodes for disk