How do I check how much free space I have on Ubuntu?
How do I check how much free space I have on Ubuntu?
To check the free disk space and disk capacity with System Monitor:
- Open the System Monitor application from the Activities overview.
- Select the File Systems tab to view the system’s partitions and disk space usage. The information is displayed according to Total, Free, Available and Used.
How do I check disk space in Terminal?
To find out the available and used disk space, use df (disk filesystems, sometimes called disk free). To discover what’s taking up the used disk space, use du (disk usage). Type df and press enter in a Bash terminal window to get started. You’ll see a lot of output similar to the screenshot below.
What is Lsblk in Ubuntu?
lsblk lists information about all or the specified block devices. The lsblk command reads the sysfs filesystem to gather information. The command prints all block devices (except RAM disks) in a tree-like format by default. Use lsblk –help to get a list of all available columns.
What is SDA and sda1?
The partitions on each SCSI disk are represented by appending a decimal number to the disk name: sda1 and sda2 represent the first and second partitions of the first SCSI disk drive in your system. The first disk (at address 2) is then named sda , and the second sdb .
How do I free up space on my Ubuntu root?
How to free up disk space in Ubuntu and Linux Mint
- Get rid of packages that are no longer required [Recommended]
- Uninstall unnecessary applications [Recommended]
- Clean up APT cache in Ubuntu.
- Clear systemd journal logs [Intermediate knowledge]
- Remove older versions of Snap applications [Intermediate knowledge]
How do I free up memory in Ubuntu?
3 Answers
- Switch to a lighter desktop, you don’t need to reinstall, you could just install a desktop session such as xfce or install metapackage for another flavor, such as Xubuntu edition with sudo apt-get install xubuntu-desktop.
- Add more swap, either via partition or swap file.
