Login to your Linux server using SSH Client (ie, PuTTy)
Once you are connected to your server:
Use to following command to check Hard Drive and partitions:
(without the “#”)
# df -h
It will show you output like this:
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/simfs 489G 42G 447G 9% /
none 7.8G 4.0K 7.8G 1% /dev
none 7.8G 0 7.8G 0% /dev/shm
The Size is shown in GigaBytes.
If you’d like to see the usage volume of a particular partition (ie, “/home”), use the following command:
(without the “#”)
# du -sh /home/
It will show you the usage in Gigabytes (or in Megabytes if usage is below 1 GB)
If you’d like to view the directory size in a particular partition (ie, “/home”):
(without the “#”)
# du -sh /home/*
The above will show you the size of all the directories in that partition.
