How to check the whole disk space?

thomas2004ch · 08-06-2012, 02:21 AM

Hi,

I can use df -h to check the used and available disk space. But it doesn't show the sum.

etech3 · 08-06-2012, 03:15 AM

Did you try:

Code:

du -h

thomas2004ch · 08-06-2012, 03:48 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by etech3

Did you try:

Code:

du -h

Yes. It seems it just print out the sum of each directory but not the whole of disk. Besides, it print out a very long list and it takes very long.

etech3 · 08-06-2012, 04:01 AM

[quote]Besides, it print out a very long list and it takes very long.[/quote

I think it's the last line.

Code:

du -h

The last line on my test machines shows 1.1G.

Of cource there is nothing on this machine except a base install of Wheezy with a couple of small problem packages.

just my

thomas2004ch · 08-06-2012, 04:09 AM

The last line on the machine is 6.9 GB. But if I use df -h I got followings:

Code:

Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/vg_root-lv_root
                      4.9G  2.8G  1.9G  61% /
/dev/mapper/vg_root-lv_var
                      3.0G  458M  2.4G  17% /var
/dev/mapper/vg_root-lv_home
                      496M   21M  450M   5% /home
/dev/mapper/vg_root-lv_opt
                       13G  3.8G  8.2G  32% /opt
/dev/mapper/vg_root-lv_tmp
                      496M   19M  452M   4% /tmp
/dev/sda1              99M   41M   54M  43% /boot
tmpfs                 1.5G     0  1.5G   0% /dev/shm

Do you know is it possible not to print out the long list?

jv2112 · 08-06-2012, 04:23 AM

To see the total by system and drives you can do this.

Code:

joe@Tux-Box  in ~$ df -hTl --total
Filesystem                                             Type      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
rootfs                                                 rootfs     10G  1.3G  8.3G  14% /
udev                                                   devtmpfs   10M     0   10M   0% /dev
tmpfs                                                  tmpfs     801M  1.6M  799M   1% /run
/dev/disk/by-uuid/4f3d205b-268b-4cea-8ebd-132a6f755561 ext4       10G  1.3G  8.3G  14% /
tmpfs                                                  tmpfs     5.0M     0  5.0M   0% /run/lock
tmpfs                                                  tmpfs     1.6G   76K  1.6G   1% /tmp
tmpfs                                                  tmpfs     1.6G  900K  1.6G   1% /run/shm
/dev/sda1                                              ext4      331M   36M  278M  12% /boot
/dev/sda4                                              ext4       25G  7.1G   17G  30% /home
/dev/sda5                                              ext4       12G  5.6G  5.0G  53% /usr
/dev/sda7                                              ext4      7.7G  646M  6.6G   9% /var
/dev/sdb1                                              ext4      1.4T  793G  534G  60% /media/Archive-I
/dev/sde1                                              ext4      1.4T  244G  1.1T  19% /media/Archive-II
/dev/sdc1                                              ext4      931G  234G  651G  27% /media/E-Space
/dev/sdf1                                              ext4      1.4T  597G  730G  45% /media/N-Space
/dev/sdd1                                              ext4      298G  214G   70G  76% /media/K-9
total                                                  -         5.4T  2.1T  3.1T  41%

If you wab to see by a group of folders then

Code:

joe@Tux-Box  in ~$ du -sch /media/N-Space/Cinema/
543G	/media/N-Space/Cinema/
543G	total

Hope this helps.

414N · 08-06-2012, 04:23 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by thomas2004ch

Hi,

I can use df -h to check the used and available disk space. But it doesn't show the sum.

What sum? If you mean user+avail, isn't it in the Size column?

thomas2004ch · 08-06-2012, 05:41 AM

You get the point. Many thanks!