Check Disk Space Usage on Ubuntu
Posted by Admin on January 4th, 2007
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Here is the different types you can check your disk space in your ubuntu system
Using Disk Usage Analyser
The utility will give you both a text version of the space and a graphical representation of the data that is on your hard drive.
If you want to open this go to Applications—>Accessories—>Disk Usage Analyser
Once it opens you should see the following screen
Using df command
The df command displays information about total space and available space on a file system.
Here is the example using df command
If you want to know more available options check df man page
Using Discus
Discus is a GPL text-mode disk space usage program.Discus aims to make df prettier. Features include color, bar graphs, and smart formatting of numbers (automatically choosing the most suitable size from kilobytes, megabytes, gigabytes, or terabytes). Or choose your own size, along with specifying the number of decimal places.
Install Discuss in Ubuntu
sudo apt-get install discus
and press enter this will complete installation after this if you want to use discus check the following example
Discus Example
A screenshot with the default settings
If you want more available options check man page
May 5th, 2009 at 9:11 pm
I am totally new to GNU/Linux. I installed Ubuntu 9.04 on a Pentium 4, 256MB/RAM currently running Windows-XP. But I found that when I installed Ubuntu, for some reason it did not ask me for System-Disk-Space. Now that I want to install some Ubuntu-Updates, it asks me to free disk space from “/”, but I do not know how to do this. Can you pleas help? Thanks in advance.
June 7th, 2009 at 3:18 am
Quote previous user comment: “I am totally new to GNU/Linux. I installed Ubuntu 9.04 on a Pentium 4, 256MB/RAM currently running Windows-XP. But I found that when I installed Ubuntu, for some reason it did not ask me for System-Disk-Space. Now that I want to install some Ubuntu-Updates, it asks me to free disk space from “/”, but I do not know how to do this. Can you pleas help? Thanks in advance.”
9.04 has been a real problem starting with me upgrading from 8.10 to 9.04 with and ATI video card. Lost all 8.10 files (system bombed).
Now, the same thing ( as above) happened to me on 2 machines, one xp desktop and one vista laptop. This disk space problem is an other unforgivable oversite. I am hoping that I can uninstall 9.04 on both machines and either go back to 8.10, or just give up on ubuntu.
July 15th, 2009 at 2:07 am
Hardware :
motherboard ASUS p5Q-E with 5 Hard disk
HDD0 – 80GB – installed XP SP3
HDD1 – 160GB – installed Vista SP2
HDD2 – 160GB windows 7 RC
HDD3 – want to install UBUNTU 9.04
HDD4 – want to install Mac OS.
i am totally new for linux and MAC, i have no idea about ubuntu and mac os.
once i tried to install ubuntu 9.04 was successed after login
when i try to update “it asks me to free disk space from “/” ” after that i format hdd for the partition to make some space, after that i tried to reboot but never comes up even XP, vista, windows7 nothing worked.
now i installed Xp, Vista and windows7 from scratch.
for install ubuntu and mac os, please help me.
Thank you very much in advance.
November 10th, 2009 at 5:44 pm
Guys, it looks like you are installing your Ubuntu on very small partitions. You should probably be careful when you do your installation configuring the disk space that will be available for Ubuntu. I think Ubuntu definitely deserves a little effort on your side — it will deliver rewards that you can’t imagine yet.
Take a look at this document:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowtoPartition