Ever need to find out what’s using the most space on your Linux box? There are a couple commands that will help make things easier…<\/p>\n

To find out how much space you have use:<\/p>\n

df -h .<\/code><\/pre>\n
Which will give you output like so…<\/p>\n
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on\r\n\/dev\/sda         20G   15G  4.2G  79% \/<\/code><\/pre>\n
To list out the directories using the most space, use this handy command…<\/p>\n
sudo du \/usr\/local | sort -n<\/code><\/pre>\n
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