How to check disk usage and find large files on Linux
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My server disk is getting full. How can I find which files and directories are taking up the most space?
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Check overall disk usage
# Human-readable disk usage
df -h
# Show only local filesystems
df -hlFind large files and directories
# Find top 10 largest directories
du -h --max-depth=1 / | sort -hr | head -10
# Find files larger than 500MB
find / -type f -size +500M -exec ls -lh {} \;
# Interactive disk usage analyzer
sudo apt install ncdu
ncdu /
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