Jack Wallen, writing for TechRepublic Premium, presents some of the more useful disk management command line tools found on just about every Linux distribution. Once you have even a basic understanding of these commands, disk management in Linux will be considerably easier.

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du

The du command prints out estimated file space usage. Unlike the df command, du is best suited for viewing the space specific files are consuming within a directory. For example, you could issue the command:

du /var/www/html/

The above command would show you just how much space each file within that directory is taking up. Of course, the default will display everything in 1K block size, so you’ll want to use the command in such a way that you can better gauge how much space those files are taking up.

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