How to Get Disk Usage from Command Line?
How Can I Get the Current Disk Usage (In %) of My Hard Drive from the Command Line? 2 2 Answers Ncdu Works Well from the Command Line. It's Ncurses-Based and...
How can I get the current disk usage (in %) of my hard drive from the command line?
2 Answers
ncdu
Works well from the command line. It's ncurses-based and interactive.
You can install it with sudo apt-get install ncdu.
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du -shx * | sort -rh | head -10 - If you want more fine grained disk usage, you should take a look at the answers here.
By using the df command.
Here's an example output:
$ df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 303537496 27537816 260580948 10% /
none 950788 252 950536 1% /dev
none 959516 232 959284 1% /dev/shm
none 959516 388 959128 1% /var/run
none 959516 0 959516 0% /var/lock
Also take a look at its manpage.
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