Show disc space usage in Linux

To get the disk space usage of the your filesystem in Linux, you can use the df command.

Execute the df command as shown in the following.

df

Example

In the following example, we display the disk space usage of our system.

Linux - Show disk space usage

As you can observe, the command displays a table where each row contains

  • Filesystem – the name of filesystem
  • 1K-blocks – the size of the disk the filesystem has been allocated with, in units of 1K blocks
  • Used – the number of 1K-blocks used
  • Available – number of 1K-blocks available for usage
  • Use% – the percentage of use
  • Mounted on – where the system is mounted on.
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Conclusion

In this Linux Tutorial, we learned how to display the disk space usage using df command.