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Disk Space Management

df, du, and ncdu commands to analyze and free up disk space.

2025-08-28
linux, disk, storage

Check disk usage (human-readable)

df -h

Check specific filesystem

df -h /

Find directory sizes

du -sh /var/*

Top 10 largest directories

du -h /var | sort -rh | head -n 10

Disk usage of current directory

du -sh .

Interactive disk analyzer (ncdu)

ncdu /var

Navigate with arrows, press d to delete files.

Find largest files

find / -type f -size +1G -exec ls -lh {} \;

Check inode usage

df -i

Clear systemd journal logs

journalctl --vacuum-size=100M

Find old log files

find /var/log -name "*.log" -mtime +30

Remove old Docker images

docker image prune -a

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