Check hard drive usage Linux

The output of the ‘df’ command will show you overall disk usage. To find out how much space a give directory is used us the ‘du -s ‘ command.

Once you are connected to the server via SSH, run the following command:
# df -h

This will output the usage of each partition in the server. To list the size of a specific directory, run the following command:
du -sh /home/

If you want to list all the subdirectory sizes under /home, run the following command:
du -sh /home/*

To find files larger than 100MB, use this command:
find / -type f -size +100000k -exec du -h {} \;

 

Additional resource links————

http://knowledgelayer.softlayer.com/procedure/how-can-i-check-my-hard-disk-usage-linux

https://documentation.cpanel.net/display/CKB/How+to+Manage+your+Hard+Drive+Space

https://www.hostingxtreme.com/knowledgebase/18/How-to-check-disk-usage-in-cPanel.html

iNodes————–

No space left on device – running out of Inodes

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