For example, you might look at the disk space used by /home or the directories within /home with one of these commands: # du /home # du /home/* With df -h, you can looks at how full particular file ...

Finding what's using up your disk space goes more smoothly if you're ready to run a series of helpful commands Disk space filling up can really mess your systems up, especially if the root partition ...

Jack Wallen, writing for TechRepublic Premium, presents some of the more useful disk management command line tools found on just about every Linux distribution. Once you have even a basic ...

In the beginning days of Unix and later Linux, disks were physically large, but very small in terms of storage capacity. A 300 megabyte disk in the mid-90’s was the size of a shoebox. Today, you can ...