Check space in disks and file systems

Several ways to know the free space in the file system

bash

using bash commands

files systems and disks

check the use, size and ocupations of files systems

• df -h

directories and paths

check the size of directories and/or paths

du -hd 1 ./

sort directories by size

du -hd 1 <PATH-TO-CHECK> 2> /dev/null | sort -hr | tail -n +2 | head -<DEPTH-OF-DIRS>

making an exec bash script

create a file sort-dir-by-size.sh with this content

#!/bin/bash
#
# read at
# https://linuxconfig.org/list-all-directories-and-sort-by-size

# send errors to dev null
#    2> /dev/null
# du -hd 1 $PATH | sort -h 2> /dev/null
if [ $# != 2 ]; then
	echo "Incorrect number of arguments!" >&2
	echo "USAGE: ./sort-dir-by-size.sh [DIRECTORY] <number of dirs>"
fi
du -hd 1 $1 2> /dev/null | sort -hr | tail -n +2 | head -$2

give file exec permissions ug+x sort-dir-by-size.sh

exec it in bash ./sort-dir-by-size.sh

files

list files with size in human (K,M,G)

ls -lh ./

list all files with sizes in human

ls -alFh ./

sort files by size

find . -printf "%s\t %p\n" | sort -nr |more

find bigger files than 2k

find . -size +2k  -printf "%p \t%k kb\n" | sort -k2n

Aplications

using duf Disk Usage/Free Utility

Check the development at https://github.com/muesli/duf

install

https://github.com/muesli/duf#installation

Debian: apt install duf

usage

open terminal

jus type duf wherever you are

with arguments like: duf /home /some/path /some/file

list everything duf --all