Disk Commands
Submitted by Des on Tue, 10/01/2013 - 09:18
To see a listing of disks partition table
fdisk -l
fdisk -l /dev/sda
To see the amount of disk space available on the file system
df -h
df -k /home
And to just get the % of space available in the /home directory
df k /home |tail -1| awk '{print $5}' | sed 's/%//'
Disk usage du shows the amount of data a directory uses
du -h
du -s
To print a list of directories in var with the amount of space each dir is taking up and sorted in decending order
du -s /var/* |sort -n