How To Check Disk Space In Linux

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How to check disk space in linux. It s very simple in. Display information of all file system disk space usage the same as above but it also displays information of dummy. 12 useful df commands to check disk space in linux 1. You can check your disk space simply by opening a terminal window and entering the following.
Check file system disk space usage the df command displays the information of device name total blocks total. As you might expect that stands for disk usage. It should produce an output that looks like the. How to check disk space on linux from the command line df.
Open the terminal and type df then press enter. Check linux disk space using df command. Our next command is du. The df command is the tool i first used to discover drive space on linux way back in the 1990s.
So you have discovered that the disk is virtually full but what is causing it. How to check and manage disk space in linux using the df command. By default df displays values in 1 kilobyte blocks.