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| author | published | title | description | category | |
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| ~ben | true | disk usage tools and guidelines | tips and tricks for keeping track of your disk usage on tilde.team and elsewhere |
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disk usage
files tend to keep growing and growing until you run out of disk space all of a sudden.
let's take a look at some tools to keep an eye on disk usage.
du
du (short for disk usage) is the go-to tool.
common switches include:
-h: human readable-s: summarize-c: total
example:
to see the disk usage of the current directory, run: du -sh
check the manpage for more information and additional switches
ncdu
ncdu (short for ncurses disk usage) is extremely useful for visualizing
disk usage.
call ncdu with no args to recurse starting in the current directory or
pass a dir name to start there
try it on your $HOME and see which files and dirs are taking up the most
space.
press ? to see additional keybinds once you've started it up. you can change
the sort order, open a shell, and delete files without closing the program.
df
df (short for disk free) lists mounted disks with usage, free space,
and capacity. try it out from your shell to get a quick glance at total
disk usage
don't forget to use -h to get human readable units.
tilde.team guidelines
even though we have plenty of disk space to go around on tilde.team, we request that you try to keep your usage below 1 gb.
a good rule of thumb is to consider if all teammates were to use the same amount of resources and how that would affect the experience for everyone else.
admins occasionally take a look at disk usage in /home and may
request that you delete large or unnecessary files.
please check with admins if you expect to use a lot of disk for a short period of time so we don't bother you excessively.