Used Space On Disk
df -h
To get the amount of free space on the disk as a single value in kB you can use this:
df -k /tmp | tail -1 | awk '{print $4}'
or in MB:
df -BM /tmp | tail -1 | awk '{print $4}'
(info about this here)
Used Space Of Current Directory
du -sh /*
Full Disk!
A few things you can do…
Remove old compressed log files from the system:
sudo rm -v /var/log/*.gz
Clean-Up Installation Packages .To remove partial packages, clean the cache, remove unused dependencies use:
sudo apt-get autoclean
sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get autoremove
USEFUL?
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