Checking Disk Space

Post date: Jul 14, 2016 2:26:44 PM

You may start to get errors on certain online systems (e.g. UCM, Unity) if the server it's hosted on runs out of disk space.

In this example, the Golf server has run out of space and we need to figure out what the culprit is.

1. SSH into the server (guide)

2. Enter the command sudo su

3. Go to the root directory cd /

4. Enter the command du -h --max-depth=1

This may take some time as it calculates the size of each folder.

5. Once the command has finished, you can analyze which folders are taking up the most space. In this example, the backup folder is using 339GB!

6. We can then FTP (guide) into the server and delete some unnecessary files.