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Check disk usage in unix terminal?

by WeCanCode-Author | Dec 27, 2020 | 3 Minutes : Tutorials, How-To

How to check disk usage in unix terminal?

Here is how you can check disk usage in unix terminal.

Disk usage is a critical thing in servers, Certain times the web service or server acts weird and it could be disk space being full.

In order to check the disk space we can use “df” command in unix. which will show us the disk/file system, used and available disk quantity. also the mount location of the disk.

We have discussed below listed commands

df – disk usage checking
man – man is nothing but manual, by passing the command as parameter to this command will open the manual for the command in parameter.

https://youtu.be/kqVzUOZMSY0

df command

aryanz_co_in@pop-os:~$ df -h
df: /run/user/1001/doc: Operation not permitted
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
tmpfs           1.6G  2.1M  1.6G   1% /run
/dev/sda2       723G  111G  575G  17% /
tmpfs           7.8G   87M  7.7G   2% /dev/shm
tmpfs           5.0M     0  5.0M   0% /run/lock
tmpfs           4.0M     0  4.0M   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/sda1       1.5G  199M  1.3G  14% /boot/efi

More 3 Minutes: Tutorials here

Check disk usage in unix? — ~3Minutes: Tutorial

How to create a file in unix – 3Minutes: Tutorial

by WeCanCode-Author | Dec 25, 2020 | 3 Minutes : Tutorials, hello-world, How-To, Interview

In this video, I have explained How to create a file in unix?

(Create, edit, view and save text file using unix terminal.)

This video covers the below listed commands

pwd – present working directory
cd – change directory
touch – to create file
cat – view content of the file
less – same as cat command, but opens in editor
mkdir – make or create directory

https://youtu.be/xDe6OLATxQc

How to create a file in unix ?

aryanz_co_in@pop-os:~/dev/folder1$ touch hello.txt
aryanz_co_in@pop-os:~/dev/folder1$ vi hello.txt
[Edit the file] to save press Esc + :wq (w is for save and q is for quit)
aryanz_co_in@pop-os:~/dev/folder1$ cat hello.txt

Keep the learning short, not to waste your precious time.

How to create a file in unix - 3Minutes: Tutorial