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I’m managing a small business website on Ubuntu. What’s the simplest command to check available disk space?
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Hi there,
df -h
That’s it. The -h flag makes the output human readable so you see GB and MB instead of raw bytes. Look at the Use% column for your main partition, usually mounted at /.
If you want to find what is actually eating up space:
du -h / --max-depth=3 2>/dev/null | sort -rh | head -20
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