Ubuntu 14 find what is consuming disk space

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Have any command to see what is consuming disk space on ubuntu 14?

My Ubuntu server has left only 70MB of disk space

thank's

I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because this question can be answered with a simple Google search — Tim, Feb 21 '17 at 22:05

score 3 · Answer 1 · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:37

I am pretty sure this article can help you https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/3961/how-to-understand-whats-taking-up-space/3964#3964

For instance:

du /home | sort -rn (will search all files/directories under /home and sort them by largest to smallest.

du -h /home | sort -rh (same but will show it in MB/KB/etc) - Note this requires coreutils 7.5 or newer (sort --version to check)

You can replace /home with any directory of your choice.

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 21 '17 at 22:02

A quick df -h can show you the volumes and basic usage.

Then I like to drill down by doing du -s * | awk '{ if( $1 > 10000 ) { print; } }'

That will return a list of the directories over 10 MB in size. You can keep running the command from there as you drill down. I'd start in the /var, /home, /root, and /usr directories.

Ubuntu 14 find what is consuming disk space

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