![]() This command may take a while to run as it is iterating throughout your entire filesystem - all files and folders - and tallying up disk utilization.Īs you can see from the highlighted entries /var and /usr is using up the most disk space. Usually the partition you are interested in, is the one mounted on / this is the root of your system and which (usually) holds all your data and applications.īut where is all that space being used? Here we use the du, or disk utilization, command. ![]() Here you can see our server is consuming 2.6 Gigabyte of a total of 94 Gigabyte available. instead of bytes which can be hard to read. The -h argument we pass to df just means "human readable" so you get the disk space utilization in Megabytes, Gigabytes etc. Lxd/containers/maintenance 94G 2.6G 91G 3% / On a typical Webdock VPS this will look like:įilesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on You can start with checking out the overall disk space consumption for your system. In addition, you should have shell (SSH) access to your VPS. Most of the commands listed here will work with other Linux distributions as well. ![]() This guide assumes you are on Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial or 18.04 Bionic or later.
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