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du

tells you how much disk space files/directories take up

-s: summary: total size of all files in a directory
-h: human readable sizes

df

tells you how much free space each partition has. -h for human-readable sizes

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3 18G G 2.5G 86% /
udev 483M 4.0K 483M 1% /dev
tmpfs 99M 1.4M 97M 2% /run
/dev/sda4 167G 157G 9.9G 95% /home

df -i

instead of % disk fee, report how many inodes are used/fee on each partition

happy little stick person: running out of inodes is VERY ANNOYING. You can’t create new files!

ncdu

see what’s using disk space in an interactive way

17.5 GiB [#####] /music
3.2 GiB [## ] /photos
5.7 MiB [ ] /code
2.0 MiB [ ] file.pdf

iostat

get statistics about disk reads/writes

# iostat 5 (interval to report at)`

Device: kB_read/s kB_wrtn/s
sda 2190.21 652.87
sdb 6.00 0.00