Managing Your Disk Usage
If you're on a system where you need to worry about disk usage, have a disk quota (we learned about this in the last lesson) that you must remain under, or are just curious about how much space your files are taking up, there are a number of ways for you to look at this data. These commands are detailed in the following list:
ls— Referring back to Lesson 4, “The File System Explained,” you know that you can use the ls command with the -l option to display disk usage for a file or files. If you need to scan quickly through your files to see which ones are taking up the most space, this is a quick way to do it.
find— In Lesson 5, “File System Navigation Techniques,” you were introduced to using the find command to find ...
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