Hard Disk Allocation with df and du

The following commands can be used to display the hard drive usage on Linux-based operating systems on the console.

df

disk free displays the free (meaning available) storage space on the hard disk.

• Display free storage space for the entire file system

df -h

• Display free storage space for the local file system

df -hl

du

disk usage displays the storage space in use (meaning not available) on the hard disk.

• Display all storage space in use for the system

du -sh /

• Display the storage space for the Media folder, but ignore all BMP files.

du --exclude="*.bmp*" -sh media/

• Display the storage space for the current directory.

du -sh ./