Monitoring disk usage
Disk space is a limited resource. We frequently perform disk usage calculation on storage media (such as hard disks) to find out the free space available on them. When free space becomes scarce, we find out large files to be deleted or moved in order to create free space. In addition to this, disk usage manipulations are also used in shell scripting contexts. This recipe will illustrate various commands used for disk manipulations with a variety of options.
Getting ready
df and
du are the two significant commands that are used for calculating disk usage in Linux. The command df stands for disk free and du stands for disk usage. Let's see how we can use them to perform various tasks that involve disk usage calculation.
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