I’ll introduce a Linux command to display directories sorted by highest disk consumption.
Background: Responding to Disk Full Warning
I received a disk full warning, so I looked up Linux commands to identify directories consuming large amounts of disk space.
/dev/nvme0n1p1 at 85% Use% causing disk full warning
$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
devtmpfs 3.9G 56K 3.9G 1% /dev
tmpfs 3.9G 0 3.9G 0% /dev/shm
/dev/nvme0n1p1 20G 17G 3.2G 85% /
Checking Directories with High Disk Usage on Linux
Top 3 Directories with Highest Disk Usage
du -S / | sort -rn | head -3
Practical Example: Display Top 3 Disk Usage Across Entire Linux Server
sudo su -
cd /
du -S / | sort -rn | head -3
836172 /u/apps/example.com/shared/uploads
542596 /u/apps/example.com/shared/cached-copy/.git/objects/pack
263120 /home/ec2-user/.fonts/NotoSansCJKsc
That’s all from the Gemba.