How to show your disk space usage in ubuntu

Posted on December 18, 2008

In fact it’s very simple,you just need to use command df to list your disk usage.

The command df displays the amount of disk space available on the file system containing each file name argument. If no file name is given, the space available on all currently mounted file systems is shown. Disk space is shown in 1K blocks by default, unless the environment variable POSIXLY_CORRECT is set, in which case 512-byte blocks are used.Below are some examples of this command.

j@j-desktop:~$ sudo df -k
Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda4              6351268   3082920   2948256  52% /
tmpfs                   511848         0    511848   0% /lib/init/rw
varrun                  511848       112    511736   1% /var/run
varlock                 511848         0    511848   0% /var/lock
udev                    511848      2772    509076   1% /dev
tmpfs                   511848       104    511744   1% /dev/shm
lrm                     511848      2000    509848   1% /lib/modules/2.6.27-7-generic/volatile
j@j-desktop:~$ sudo df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda4             6.1G  3.0G  2.9G  52% /
tmpfs                 500M     0  500M   0% /lib/init/rw
varrun                500M  112K  500M   1% /var/run
varlock               500M     0  500M   0% /var/lock
udev                  500M  2.8M  498M   1% /dev
tmpfs                 500M  104K  500M   1% /dev/shm
lrm                   500M  2.0M  498M   1% /lib/modules/2.6.27-7-generic/volatile
j@j-desktop:~$ sudo df -h -F ext3
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda4             6.1G  3.0G  2.9G  52% /
j@j-desktop:~$

The fist command display the disk usage with disk blocks.And the second command show the disk usage with Mega.
And the 3rd command,a new options “-F ext3″ indicate that only show partitions whose filesystem is linux ext3.

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