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How to find disk usage on linux.md

How to find disk usage information on linux

Install this simple tool ncdu for linux

sudo apt install ncdu

After this simply run the command:

sudo ncdu -x /

you will enter into navigation mode in the terminal using which you can find which directories are eating up space on your linux system.

sample output

    4,0GiB [##########] /usr
  579,3MiB [#         ] /root
  487,4MiB [#         ] /opt
   41,7MiB [          ] /lib
   22,7MiB [          ] /sbin
   21,2MiB [          ] /boot
   18,6MiB [          ] /etc
    9,1MiB [          ] /bin
    3,6MiB [          ]  core
  260,0KiB [          ] /build
   88,0KiB [          ] /tmp
e  16,0KiB [          ] /lost+found
    8,0KiB [          ] /media
    4,0KiB [          ] /lib64
e   4,0KiB [          ] /srv
e   4,0KiB [          ] /mnt
>   0,0  B [          ] /var
>   0,0  B [          ] /sys
>   0,0  B [          ] /run
>   0,0  B [          ] /proc
>   0,0  B [          ] /ovhbackup
>   0,0  B [          ] /home
>   0,0  B [          ] /dev
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