Linux: Free Up Disk Space

See where space is being used

• Check the status of all disks:
  df -h
• folders size: du --max-depth=1 -h /
• sudo du -xm / | sort -rn

Ubuntu

On ubuntu you can free up space by clearing old app caches:

apt-get clean all
apt-get update
apt-get -f install
apt-get autoremove

Freeing up Disk Space

• Delete log files in tmp
  cd /tmp/
  rm -rf *.log
• Delete archived log files in tmp:
  rm -rf /var/log/*gz
  or to do this recursively:
  To see what it will delete:
  find . -name "*log*.gz" -type f
  find . -name "*log*.gz" -type f -delete

Log Rotate

Amend /etc/logrotate.conf e.g. using a guide like this one on thegeekstuff.com
e.g. reduce the amount you keep by

# keep 1 weeks worth of backlogs

rotate 1