How to check your disk space usage if it is near full?

timothykiko · Jan 11, 2017

How can I check my disk space storage if it is near full via SSH with commands? I am afraid my disk on my VPS hosting will be full soon because I upload too many files to it today.

ZenHosting · Jan 11, 2017

Hi timothykiko,

If you run the command "df -h", you'll see how much space you have used.

You could also download and use a disk usage analyser package like Ncdu.

It's relatively easy to install and is user-friendly.

energizedit · Jan 11, 2017

Yes, use df -h the command df - report file system disk space usage, the -h flag is for human readable, so the output will display in GB for each partition.

LJSHost · Jan 11, 2017

I agree with ZenHosting Ncdu is a excellent but if you want to dig down in as much detail as possible I would suggest you try the find command also.

You can use find piped into various commands to achieve the same thing, here is a nice little example of using find to display all files larger on / than a certain file ordered by file size.

Code:

 find / -size +1M | xargs ls -lh | sort -k 5 -n -r | awk '{ $1="";$2="";$3="";$4="";$6="";$7="";$8="";print}'

output

Code:

    128M    /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0/resource0_wc
    128M    /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0/resource0
    128T    /proc/kcore
    33M    /var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.uk.debian.org_debian_dists_jessie_main_binary-amd64_Packages
    32M    /var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.uk.debian.org_debian_dists_jessie_main_source_Sources
    23M    /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libicudata.so.52.1
    23M    /var/cache/apt/srcpkgcache.bin
    23M    /var/cache/apt/pkgcache.bin
    22M    /var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.uk.debian.org_debian_dists_jessie_main_i18n_Translation-en
    21M    /var/cache/apt/archives/g++-4.9_4.9.2-10_amd64.deb
    18M    /var/lib/mysql/ibdata1
    17M    /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.9/cc1plus
    16M    /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.9/cc1
    15M    /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.9/lto1
    15M    /boot/initrd.img-3.16.0-4-amd64
    15M    /var/log/installer/cdebconf/templates.dat
    12M    /usr/sbin/mysqld
    6.2M    /lib/udev/hwdb.bin
    5.2M    /var/cache/apt/archives/gcc-4.9_4.9.2-10_amd64.deb
    5.1M    /usr/share/doc/gcc-4.9-base/test-summaries/gcc.log.xz
    5.0M    /var/lib/mysql/ib_logfile0
    5.0M    /var/lib/mysql/ib_logfile1
    5.0M    /var/cache/apt/archives/cpp-4.9_4.9.2-10_amd64.deb
    4.9M    /var/cache/apt/archives/vim-runtime_2%3a7.4.488-7+deb8u1_all.deb
    4.7M    /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.a
    4.4M    /usr/bin/aptitude-curses
    4.4M    /usr/share/doc/gcc-4.9-base/test-summaries/g++.log.xz
    4.3M    /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0.2400.25
    4.0M    /run/log/journal/17683b8ea2354c169d44e88986b5d099/system.journal
    4.0M    /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:04.0/resource1
    3.8M    /usr/share/GeoIP/GeoIPv6.dat
    3.7M    /usr/bin/python2.7
    3.6M    /usr/bin/mysql_client_test
    3.5M    /usr/bin/mysqltest
    3.5M    /usr/share/i18n/locales/C
    3.4M    /usr/bin/mysql
    3.4M    /var/cache/apt/archives/binutils_2.25-5_amd64.deb
    3.3M    /usr/bin/mysql_upgrade
    3.3M    /usr/bin/mysqldump
    3.3M    /usr/bin/mysqlbinlog
    3.3M    /var/cache/apt/archives/mysql-server-core-5.5_5.5.53-0+deb8u1_amd64.deb
    3.3M    /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libmysqlclient.so.18.0.0
    3.2M    /usr/bin/mysqlslap
    3.2M    /usr/bin/mysqlshow
    3.2M    /usr/bin/mysqlimport
    3.2M    /usr/bin/mysqlcheck
    3.2M    /usr/bin/mysqladmin
    3.2M    /usr/bin/myisamchk
    3.2M    /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.9/libstdc++.a
    3.1M    /usr/bin/myisampack
    3.1M    /usr/bin/myisamlog
    3.1M    /usr/bin/myisam_ftdump
    3.1M    /var/cache/debconf/templates.dat-old
    3.1M    /var/cache/debconf/templates.dat
    3.0M    /boot/vmlinuz-3.16.0-4-amd64
    3.0M    /usr/share/file/magic.mgc
    3.0M    /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.9/libgcc.a

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