Finding disk space in a Linux system

directory to see the space usage

DU-SH/* First look under the root directory

Let the file under the folder let the file sort by size

• Method One: # ls -lhSl long format display, H Human readable mode, size unit is M,G and other easy-to-read format, S size sort by size.
• Method Two: #du -h * | sort -n

• • Du: Calculates the disk space consumption of a single file or folder.
  • Sort: Sorts the output of a file row or standard output row record.
  • Head: The previous part of the output file content.

# Du-a/var | Sort-n-R | Head-n 10

You can also combine pipelines to view the largest number of files within a folder or the smallest number of files, plus pipe symbols and head or tail commands du -h * | sort -n|headdu -h * | sort -n|tail

Finding disk space in a Linux system