{"id":151,"date":"2017-07-02T11:46:34","date_gmt":"2017-07-02T11:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orissawebhosting.in\/blog\/?p=151"},"modified":"2019-07-19T04:21:37","modified_gmt":"2019-07-19T04:21:37","slug":"basic-10-commands-to-find-disk-usgae-of-files-and-directories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orissawebhosting.in\/blog\/basic-10-commands-to-find-disk-usgae-of-files-and-directories\/","title":{"rendered":"Basic 10 commands to Find disk usage and Memory Usage in linux"},"content":{"rendered":"

Commands to find\u00a0disk usage\u00a0of Files and Directories<\/strong><\/p>\n

du<\/code><\/b>\u00a0(abbreviated from\u00a0disk usage) is a linux command used to find the file and directory or folder space usage.<\/p>\n

Step 1<\/strong> – To check the disk usage detail of\u00a0wordpress\/wp-admin directory and its sub folders. Enter the command as :<\/p>\n

 #du wordpress\/wp-admin\n\"\"<\/a><\/pre>\n
Step 2<\/strong> – Now to check the details in “human Readable format”. that is you can see the details in KB, MB, GB format.<\/p>\n
#du -h wordpress\/wp-admin\n\n\"\"<\/a><\/pre>\n
Step 3<\/strong> – \u00a0Insert the -S<\/strong>\u00a0into\u00a0the du command, it shows\u00a0the total disk space occupied by a directory.<\/p>\n
#du -sh wordpress\/wp-admin \n\n\"\"<\/a><\/pre>\n
Step-4<\/strong>– \u00a0To show the disk usage based on modification of time, enter the following command as :<\/p>\n
#du --time wordpress\/wp-admin\n\n\"\"<\/a>\n<\/pre>\n
Step5<\/strong>– To know the amount of free disk space available in the server, enter the below command as :<\/p>\n
#df -h\u00a0\n\n\"\"<\/a><\/pre>\n
Commands to find\u00a0memory usage\u00a0using linux commands<\/strong><\/p>\n
Step1<\/strong>– Use the following command to see total amount of free and used physical and swap memory in the server.<\/p>\n
also use -m<\/strong>\u00a0command to know the usage details in MB.<\/p>\n
#free \u00a0or \u00a0#free -m\n\n\"\"<\/a>\n<\/pre>\n
Step2<\/strong>– Use the following commands to get processor and memory has been used and other information like running processes too.<\/p>\n
#top \n\n\"\"<\/a><\/pre>\n
Step3<\/strong>– \u00a0Also you can get the same information by using below command.<\/p>\n
 #cat \/proc\/meminfo<\/pre>\n
Step4 – vmstat\u00a0reports information about processes, memory, paging, block IO, traps, and cpu activity.<\/p>\n
#vmstat\n\n\"\"<\/a>\n<\/pre>\n
Step5<\/strong> –\u00a0To see who is currently logged in and what they are doing on server, enter the below command as :<\/p>\n
#w\n\n\"\"<\/a><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Commands to find\u00a0disk usage\u00a0of Files and Directories du\u00a0(abbreviated from\u00a0disk usage) is a linux command used to find the file and directory or folder space usage. Step 1 – To check the disk usage detail of\u00a0wordpress\/wp-admin directory and its sub folders. Enter the command as : #du wordpress\/wp-admin Step 2 – Now to check the details in “human Readable format”. that is you can see the details in KB, MB, GB format. #du -h wordpress\/wp-admin Step 3 – \u00a0Insert the -S\u00a0into\u00a0the du command, it shows\u00a0the total disk space occupied by a…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orissawebhosting.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orissawebhosting.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orissawebhosting.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orissawebhosting.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orissawebhosting.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"https:\/\/orissawebhosting.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":202,"href":"https:\/\/orissawebhosting.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions\/202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orissawebhosting.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orissawebhosting.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orissawebhosting.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}