useful disk usage commands

[ctb]

ncdu gives a nice text/graphics interface to examine folder hierarchies. It's conda installable from conda-forge.

[ctb]

I like du -sk * .??* | sort -n too.

Colton
On it! I did try to use the quota command but it did not return any info. Any idea how to see your quota and current usage?

df -k . for each disk

we don’t have per-account quotas, they partition the physical disks into logical allocations that are shared across accounts

so df returns the right numbers

[ccbaumler]

In reference to seeing 'Disk quota exceeded:'

use du -sh * in the home dir and then using the same command in each big directory is more than enough to find and eliminate the large stuff and clear up space.

Also this for viewing the hidden directories du -hs .[^.]*! This can be really useful for .git directories.

• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11050265/remove-large-pack-file-created-by-git
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5613345/how-to-shrink-the-git-folder

And a combo that returns everything in a single stdout!

du -sh .[^.]* && du -sh *

[ccbaumler]

@mr-eyes has another useful command for viewing directory sizes

du -h --max-depth=1 | awk '{print $1"\t"$2}' | sort -hr

[ccbaumler]

A simply, easy way to see the resource allocation in directories.

https://github.com/ccbaumler/diskspace-checker