Comments on: Check Disk Space in Linux

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 18:06:24 +0000

Elegant. I wonder if there is way to do a command or 2 to check the hard-drive remaining capacity.

By: Azfar

Azfar — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 16:23:26 +0000

I am facing the same problem, how to release some space by freeing up the temporary files and cache from red hat linux. please share any useful link for it too. I could nothave space to even resize my disk space… Its urgent

regards

By: newtolinux

newtolinux — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 08:18:38 +0000

hi. i’m not able to start the start in my linux 2.4.20-8.
1 of the problem is due to 0 diskspace. how to release the diskspace?

By: Jim

Jim — Fri, 13 May 2011 07:46:18 +0000

search for files bigger than 10MB in the current directory and sub-directories and print the 100 largest ones
find . -type f -size +10000000c -exec ls -l \{} \; | sort -n -k 5,5 | tail -100

CLEAN IT UP!

By: Sarvar

Sarvar — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 09:56:59 +0000

I have an error like this when I run this script:

awk: 1: unexpected character 0xe2
awk: line 2: missing } near end of file

By: lyecdevf

lyecdevf — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 13:50:06 +0000

The same happens on my awesome graphical interface. The alt+ctrl+f1 logs me out. It is not useful to me in any way since there is nothing that I can do after I log back in.

By: fire

fire — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 09:22:37 +0000

Special 10x, that is just great!

Only one problem i have monted like that
/usr/part – partition 1
/usr/part/small1 – partiton 2
/usr/part/small2 – partition 3
in that case, the script can’t work properly for /usr/part :)

Any way – thank you very much!!!

By: chacha

chacha — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 06:02:12 +0000

nice 1
thanks chief

By: Inez Larney

Inez Larney — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 10:46:39 +0000

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By: fhgfhgf

fhgfhgf — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 07:11:07 +0000

thanx it worked

By: Ilker

Ilker — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 09:11:03 +0000

Awesome, when you want to use linuxserver just from console, i’ll add this to my knowledge base. Thanks!

By: Andres

Andres — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 19:11:22 +0000

Why available space + used space is not equal to total size ??

By: Mickeydblv

Mickeydblv — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 15:39:23 +0000

Line 3 with the DISK=$1 is saying to take the parameter from the command line as the drive to do the work on. If you use DISK=1 you’ll always get readings for disk 1 – funnily enough.

Nice script – thanks!

By: Richard

Richard — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 17:55:52 +0000

DISC=$1 works fine, DISC=1 ????????????????????????

By: Pmosh

Pmosh — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:24:11 +0000

The script above doesn’t work quite right. Mainly, the third line should read DISC=1, and the quote marks don’t always copy/paste correctly. Try this code:

#!/bin/sh

DISC=1
PARTITION=`df -h |grep $DISC |awk ‘{print $1}’`
SIZE=`df -h|grep $DISC|awk ‘{print $2}’`
USED=`df -h|grep $DISC|awk ‘{print $3}’`
FREE=`df -h|grep $DISC|awk ‘{print $4}’`

echo “Partition: $PARTITION”
echo “Total size: $SIZE”
echo “Used space: $USED”
echo “Free space: $FREE”

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