{"id":2848,"date":"2017-09-04T11:13:04","date_gmt":"2017-09-04T06:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ahmadawais.com\/?p=2848"},"modified":"2017-09-04T11:13:04","modified_gmt":"2017-09-04T06:13:04","slug":"ubuntu-find-amount-free-space-hard-drive-command-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ahmadawais.com\/ubuntu-find-amount-free-space-hard-drive-command-line\/","title":{"rendered":"How Do I Find the Amount of Free Space on My Hard Drive with Command Line?"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is a quick-tip for Ubuntu users who’d like to find the amount of free space on their hard disk via command line.<\/p>\n

Figured\u00a0I’d post a quick-tip while enjoying the vacations and all. Since I am a command line power user, I like to do a lot through it. Having built a lot of CLIs and workflow automation \u2014 I can only tell you how happy it makes me being able to hack it through Command line.<\/p>\n

Space Usage on Ubuntu#<\/a><\/h2>\n

So, let’s get to it. \u00a0If like me all you need is the total of disk space used then just use the following command.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

\n
\ndf -h --total
\n<\/code>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\n

\u26a1\ufe0f Complimentary GIF \u2014 As they say, GIF or didn’t happen.<\/p>\n

\"total<\/p>\n

Here’s a sample output with the total shown at the end<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

\n
\n
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on\r\nudev            478M     0  478M   0% \/dev\r\ntmpfs           100M  4.5M   95M   5% \/run\r\n\/dev\/vda1        20G  3.3G   16G  18% \/\r\ntmpfs           497M     0  497M   0% \/dev\/shm\r\ntmpfs           5.0M     0  5.0M   0% \/run\/lock\r\ntmpfs           497M     0  497M   0% \/sys\/fs\/cgroup\r\ntmpfs           100M     0  100M   0% \/run\/user\/0\r\ntotal            22G  3.3G   17G  17% -\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Happy hacking \u2014 Cheers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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