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How can I get the current disk usage (in %) of my hard drive from the command line?

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Now I wonder if there's some commandline equivalent of kdirstat or baobab. – Ehtesh Choudhury Jun 6 '13 at 23:15
    
superuser.com/questions/9847/… – belacqua Aug 8 '14 at 21:41
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By using the df command.

Here's an example output:

$ df
Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1            303537496  27537816 260580948  10% /
none                    950788       252    950536   1% /dev
none                    959516       232    959284   1% /dev/shm
none                    959516       388    959128   1% /var/run
none                    959516         0    959516   0% /var/lock

Also take a look at its manpage.

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df -m will show things in megabytes, df -h will show you in the largest possible unit. – Oli♦ Jan 11 '11 at 15:48
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+1 I'm a huge fan of df -h. – Zoot Jan 11 '11 at 15:56
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@Oli: But that won't change the percentage! Kidding, +1. ;) – htorque Jan 11 '11 at 15:59
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ncdu

Works well from the command line. It's ncurses-based and interactive.

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Alternatives

  • Top ten: du -shx * | sort -rh | head -10
  • If you want more fine grained disk usage, you should take a look at the answers here.
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Good one. That's a great tool – Sebastian Sastre Jan 5 '16 at 14:02
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Thanks!!! I had always used du, this tool is terrific!!! – SuperMau Mar 12 '16 at 7:41
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Install this via sudo apt install ncdu – Pedi T. May 17 '17 at 4:43

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