Knowing Your File System · May 30, 02:01 AM by Dylan Doxey
For a quick assessment of your drive space distribution and usage use the df command.
dylan@dev.doxey.org$: ~ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/root 15G 14G 661M 96% / varrun 2.0G 56K 2.0G 1% /var/run varlock 2.0G 0 2.0G 0% /var/lock udev 2.0G 40K 2.0G 1% /dev devshm 2.0G 0 2.0G 0% /dev/shm /dev/sda1 237M 24M 201M 11% /boot /dev/mapper/home 440G 7.8G 410G 2% /home
The -h switch indicates human readable mode.
Gosh, looks like I ought to move some of my junk under /home.
For a more granular display of where the bulk of your stuff is, use the du command.
dylan@dev.doxey.org$: ~ du -h --max-depth=1 52K ./.subversion 7.6G ./rep 9.5M ./sandbox 45M ./.cpan 4.0K ./.gnupg 64K ./bin 128K ./.vim 7.7G .
Again, the -h switch gives you the easier to read numeric values.
The --max-depth option let's you control the depth of the display. The default is unlimited depth.
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