Question
How can I tell how much disk space is available on my Droplet?
- Posted on June 13, 2012
Asked by seanweeks
I’ve logged into the server (“droplet”) using Putty and the root username and password. Now I would like to know how much disk space is remaining that is available to me. How can I find this out?
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df -h will report disk space, it doesn’t show RAM usage. The line you want for how much disk space you’re using is likely /dev/vda. For instant on mine I see: <br> <br>/dev/vda 20G 2.0G 17G 11% / <br> <br>The second column shows total space, third column how much you’re using, fourth amount free and fifth percent used. <br> <br>To see how much RAM you’re using run: <br> <br>free -m <br>
Since the
df -hwas not detailed enough, and I needed each folder’s size and find out where the biggest folder is, I used the tutorial of https://serverpilot.io/community/articles/how-to-determine-what-is-using-disk-space.htmlsudo apt-get install ncdusudo ncdu /Done.
You can even navigate into the folders to get more details!
You can use the Linux command df to display your disk space.
df -h