How to Evaluate Disk Usage on a Linux VPS

The following commands will assist you in evaluating or freeing additional disk usage on a Linux server. You will need to connect to your server via SSH to run the following commands.

• Get an overview of available and used space. In this example, the primary partition /dev/sda3 is using 37Gb out of the 56Gb allocation

df -h

• Get a break-down of each root level folders usage.

du -hs /*

• Show the top five root level folders by disk usage.

du -sm /* | sort -rn | head -n 5

• Find Cpanel Site Logs Over 10Mb.

find /home/*/access-logs/* -size +10M -exec ls -lh {} \; | awk '{print $5 , $9}'

• Delete Cpanel Site Logs Over 10Mb.

find /home/*/access-logs/* -size +10M -exec rm -f {} \;

• Find Apache Site Logs Over 10Mb.

find /usr/local/apache/domlogs/* -type f -size +10M -exec ls -lh {} \; | awk '{print $5 , $9}'

• Delete Apache Site Logs Over 10Mb.

find /usr/local/apache/domlogs/* -type f -size +10M -exec rm -f {} \;

• Find Server Logs Over 10Mb.

find /var/log/* -size +10M -exec ls -lh {} \; | awk '{print $5 , $9}'

• Delete Server Logs Over 10Mb.

find /var/log/* -size +10M -exec rm -f {} \;

• Show disk usage for each site.

du -sm /home/* | sort -rn

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