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andreszs
Asked: 2020-01-25 13:38:42 +0800 CST

How to check and free up disk space in CentOS 7

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I have a160 GB VPS with pre-installed CentOS 7 and Webuzo. Using the du -sh command in the www dir I noticed that my sites consume barely 60GB, while the total used space is 120 GB.

Which means my CentOS installation is using 60 GB of space. I read somewhere that 20 GB is enough to install CentOS, so the question is exactly how do I find out what's eating up all space? The Webuzo dir itself in /usr/ is less than 1 GB.

Being a Windows user, I'm not very fond of Unix commands, so any help will be appreciated... I need to free up as much space as possible, thanks. I have full root access via SSH and WinSCP.

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1 Answers

  1. you can use du in /

    cd /
du -skh * |sort -h

    This will sort the biggest directories at the bottom. thne navigate into them and execute the du again until you are satisfied with your findings.

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