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Mr.Wang from Next Door
Asked: 2016-04-11 20:36:07 +0800 CST

Google Cloud : check disk space usage

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How to check the used disk space of Google Persistent Disk without looking into each of them?

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5 Answers

  1. The workaround with snapshot size will work in the console.

    For more precise (and quicker) detailed overview you can SSH into your instance and do:

    sudo df -h

    The response you get will look similar to this:

    YOURUSERNAME@YOURINSTANCENAME:~$ sudo df -h
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1       9.8G  9.3G     0 100% /
udev             10M     0   10M   0% /dev
tmpfs           743M   81M  663M  11% /run
tmpfs           1.9G     0  1.9G   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs           5.0M     0  5.0M   0% /run/lock
tmpfs           1.9G     0  1.9G   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/sdb        197G   60M  197G   1% /mnt/new_disk

    Entries starting with /dev/ under 'Filesystem' are your disks.

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  2. I use a simple workaround for this.

    Create a snapshot of your persistent disk, and look at the snapshot size:

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  3. Best Answer

    You can't see it in the disk preview as Faizan said, But you could Use Google StackDriver Monitoring tool to get a nice preview of your instances status.

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  4. Just install Monitoring Agents in https://console.cloud.google.com/monitoring/dashboards/resourceList/gce_instance then check the dashboard

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  5. In your terminal use this command to detect files size and which directory is more bulky:

    ncdu /
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