If you wish to track the Disk Usage of your Linux Dedicated Server or VPS – the Linux du command is quite useful and very fast. In this article, we will show you the most important usage of the Linux du command. It is extremely handy if you have a lot of people uploading content to your machine or if you have daily backups scheduled.
Using Linux du command to view how full is your system
This will display the size of all files down the current working directory
du
The above one will show output in Kilobytes, we are more used to seeing Mbs and Gbs, for this we’ll use the -h option
du -h
Using Linux du command to view all files’ Disk Usage
du -ah
A similar way to go is to use
du -sh ./*
Using Linux du command to view files in the n nested directories below
du -ah --max-depth=1
