QUICK GUIDE: Clearing Disk Space

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IdentifyingNCDU whereis a command line tool that can be used to review disk spaceusage isacross beinga used:filesystem.

ncdu /

ncduNote: You can specify a directory other than /. ie if you wanted to review the contents of /var, you would format the command as follows:

ncdu /var

FindWe filecan abovealso use the find command to locate files over a specificspecified size  size.

Useful link  

find / -type f -size +300M > filelist.txt 

 

The above command would search / (and all subdirectories) for any files over 300M in size. There are various options available for size specification:  

• G-> for gibibytes  

• M-> for megabytes  

• K-> for kibibytes  

• b-> for bytes  

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Files to check:  

/var/log/*  

  

/var/log/journal - this can be vacuumed to reduce the size:  

journalctl --vacuum-size=500M (removes old journal logs)  

 

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cPanel  

Anything .trash (recommend client does this:)  

-cpanel > Tweak Settings > Trash > Alter number of days