Linux console is the best place for a system admin, some useful commands to check disk space on a linux system are:
Show files by size, biggest last:
ls -lSr
Show top disk users in current dir.
du -s * | sort -k1,1rn | head
Show free space on mounted filesystems
df -h
Show free inodes on mounted filesystems
df -i
Show disks partitions sizes and types
fdisk -l
List all packages by installed size (Bytes) on rpm distros
rpm -q -a --qf '%10{SIZE}\t%{NAME}\n' | sort -k1,1n
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Thanks!!! , that helped me a lot, I was searching for a utility showing the free disk space on partitions. Like fdisk does showing geometry, would be very usefully if showed another column with freedisk space.
Anyway, i spent looking for an option or switch for mount/fdisk/sfdisk/dir to show free disk space, but there is another one specially designed for this.
Comment by Slava — October 3, 2008 @ 8:01 pm