How to Check the Size of a Directory in Linux Apart from thels -lcommand, there are other, more reliable ways to check the size of a directory in Linux. The following text presents four different methods to find the directory size. du Command Thedu(disk usage) command in Linuxoperating ...
Checking disk space on Linux using the command line is not just an idle operation. It is now a recommended practice before you attempt to install anything new or upgrade existing packages. In this short but comprehensive guide, we’ll show you how to check disk space on Linux systems. We’...
The df command is a powerful Linux command-line utility that allows you to check the disk usage and available space on file systems. When you run the command, it prints information about file systems that are currently in use, including their total size, used space, free space, and mount ...
Performing disk space checks in Linux ensures enough storage is available for system operations and application usage. The following text presents common ways to check disk space in Linux. Method 1: Check Disk Space via df Command Thedf(diskfree) command lets you check disk space in Linux and ...
In Linux and Unix-like systems, everything is like a file. That means the resources in the Unix system get assigned a file descriptor, including storage devices, network sockets, processes, etc. A file descriptor is a unique number that identifies a file and other input/output devices. It ...
No matter how high-capacity your storage drive is, you always need to see how much space you have used and what files are using it. While there are ways to do this from the GUI in Linux, as always, you get more detail by using the terminal command line.Terminal tools are especially ...
GNOME Disks is a GUI tool that offers a simple interface to check and manage the disk storage. This tool shows the information about the total storage space, partition, used space and file system, etc. GNOME Disks comes as the default utility of Rocky Linux 9, but you need to install it...
Consider using more persistent disk identifiers like/dev/disk/by-uuid,/dev/disk/by-label, or/dev/disk/by-id. See ourintroduction to storage concepts and terminology in Linuxarticle for more information. When you know the name that the kernel has assigned your disk, you can partition your dri...
Before you check if there are any bad sectors inside your hard disk, you may need to get a list of all your storage devices that are connected with your Linux system. To get a display of connected hard disk/storage devices, you can always run the list command from your system terminal....
Any system’s performance is directly dependent on the storage device’s performance. And when the storage’s performance is not good, you will face a slow loading speed on your system. How are you going to check yourSSD’s health?Well, we got you covered because today we are going to ...