Hey everyone!
I want to check how much disk space my DigitalOcean Droplet is using. What’s the best way to do that from the terminal? Thanks in advance!
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Hey! 👋
You can check your Droplet’s disk space usage with:
df -h
This will show all mounted filesystems and their usage in a human-readable format.
To see which directories are taking up space, run:
du -sh /*
Let me know if you need help freeing up space!
- Bobby
Heya,
The command you are looking for is df -h. That would give you some information like
root@ubuntu-s-1vcpu-1gb-fra1-01:~# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
tmpfs 97M 1.3M 95M 2% /run
/dev/vda1 24G 16G 7.4G 69% /
tmpfs 481M 2.1M 479M 1% /dev/shm
tmpfs 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
/dev/vda16 881M 186M 634M 23% /boot
/dev/vda15 105M 6.1M 99M 6% /boot/efi
tmpfs 97M 12K 97M 1% /run/user/0
overlay 24G 16G 7.4G 69%
root@ubuntu-s-1vcpu-1gb-fra1-01:~#
You see /dev/vda1 24G 16G 7.4G 69% / that is yyour Disk Space, what is the total size, what is used and what is available.
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