Comments on: Check Disk Space in Linux

By: ShenSiwei

ShenSiwei — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 01:00:30 +0000

I want to say, ctrl+ alt + F1 leads to shutdown my KDE unnormally but not open a terminal. :-)

Anyway, Thanks very much! this blog entity is useful to me.

By: kamal

kamal — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 08:16:30 +0000

I want to check free space (Unalloacted Partition) in linux without calculating.

want to check throgh command line.

Means alternate command for “hwbrowser”

By: Matey

Matey — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 15:55:56 +0000

Hello;

How can I tell which partition has how much space AND How can I Move files from a full partition to ones with more space?
Thanks!

df , du -h and fdisk -l are useful But do not tell me what I need to know.
I am not sure since I inherited these servers and didnt set up partitions?:
for instance;

root@myserver:/# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
varrun 941M 64K 941M 1% /var/run
varlock 941M 0 941M 0% /var/lock
procbususb 941M 104K 941M 1% /proc/bus/usb
udev 941M 104K 941M 1% /dev
devshm 941M 0 941M 0% /dev/shm

but when I do an fdisk -l I get;

root@myserver:/# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 123.5 GB, 123522416640 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 15017 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 15017 120624021 83 Linux

Disk /dev/sdb: 82.3 GB, 82348277760 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 10011 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 10011 80413326 83 Linux

Disk /dev/sdc: 250.0 GB, 250058301440 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdc1 1 2432 19535008+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdc2 2433 2554 979965 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sdc3 2555 30401 223681027+ 8e Linux LVM

SO…. HOW DO I MOVE FILES FROM like sda1 to sdc1 ?etc…

Thank You!

By: Matey

Matey — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:36:02 +0000

The script (above) does Not work for me? I am running Ubuntu 8.04, i get errors in grep, awk and the rest of the commands saying like you have to use a switch with grep etc.??

By: Ashutosh Singh

Ashutosh Singh — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 06:56:07 +0000

Fine!. The above post was very helpful for me. Thanks for posting it here…

By: unduk

unduk — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 02:43:49 +0000

thank you so much. Very helpfull information.

By: Eric

Eric — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 18:10:37 +0000

For a folder, use du. Here’s the nitty-gritty (man du for everything):
-h print sizes in human readable format (e.g., 1K 234M 2G)
-s display only a total for each argument
-a write counts for all files, not just directories
What this means is with the -s option, it only shows you stats for what you’re concerned with, otherwise it operates recursively and shows you stats for all the subdirectories of what you enter (by default it doesn’t list files without the -a switch).
Examples:
$ du -h -s /home/george
107M /home/george
$ du -h /home/george
7.2M /home/george/openldap-2.3.39/tests
7.1M /home/george/openldap-2.3.39/clients
6.1M /home/george/openldap-2.3.39/doc
98M /home/george/openldap-2.3.39
107M /home/george

By: avatare

avatare — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 18:42:07 +0000

10x… for df.
if i want to see size for individual folder ?

By: freebase

freebase — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 18:43:38 +0000

I found this page because gparted doesn’t recognize the partitions on my USB hard drive. df works great. thanks

By: ubuntu

ubuntu — Sun, 24 Dec 2006 15:02:14 +0000

good info. thank you
df –si :P

By: Alan

Alan — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 12:35:36 +0000

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By: GenToo

GenToo — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 00:11:22 +0000

Thank you for posting this, it helped me finding out how much I had left. IÂŽm a starting Linux user and this is very helpful.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 20:03:57 +0000

Just thought I would add this as we have a ton of servers that we only touch if we need to. If your server can email you can add this to the bottom and comment out the echo’s. I have it emailing my cell phone.

if [ "$FREE" -le "$MINSPACE" ]; then
mail -s “Running out of room on $DISC” cell@phone.com Just thought I would add this as we have a ton of servers that we only touch if we need to. If your server can email you can add this to the bottom and comment out the echo’s. I have it emailing my cell phone.

if [ "$FREE" -le "$MINSPACE" ]; then
mail -s “Running out of room on $DISC” cell@phone.com < sendtext
fi

Where sendtext is just a file with “Running out of space” in it.

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Fred — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 23:02:41 +0000

That script is pretty lame. It just lays it out in a different format. Big deal.

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By: nebjak

nebjak — Sat, 14 Jan 2006 22:47:43 +0000

Nice, it doesn’t so important to me, but nice idea!

By: Doug Clifton

Doug Clifton — Mon, 10 Oct 2005 04:25:22 +0000

GUI, schmooey. I access tons of Web, DB and other server type remotely that are running various flavors of Linux and BSD. An admin always wants to know things like free disk space and what apps or logs are hogging the space if the host starts to freak out.

By: cliche

cliche — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 19:27:18 +0000

I can see this being useful if you're not running a GUI. But if you are, most modern distros come with apps that does the same thing. For example, SUSE 9.2 came with this