LKBEN11493: Find the size of your hard disks on linux
Symptom
You need to find out how big your HD is on a linux bases system
Cause
You want a bigger disk so you need to know what you have
Solution
To find the size of your hard disk you can use the fdisk tool like this:
sudo fdisk -l
On my system this delivers:
Disk /dev/sda: 127 GiB, 136365211648 bytes, 266338304 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x5f897996
Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/sda1 * 2048 19531775 19529728 9,3G 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 19531776 29296639 9764864 4,7G 82 Linux swap / Solaris
To see how much space you still have left on your HD, you can use df:
df -h
A typical output look like this:
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev 975M 0 975M 0% /dev
tmpfs 200M 22M 178M 11% /run
/dev/sda1 9,1G 2,1G 6,5G 25% /
tmpfs 996M 0 996M 0% /dev/shm
tmpfs 5,0M 0 5,0M 0% /run/lock
tmpfs 996M 0 996M 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs 200M 0 200M 0% /run/user/1000
Here you can find the Use in % and how much is still available. Most of the time you will be interested in the mountpoint /. I made it bold in the output above.
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Author: - Keskon GmbH & Co. KG
Wim Peeters is electronics engineer with an additional master in IT and over 30 years of experience, including time spent in support, development, consulting, training and database administration. Wim has worked with SQL Server since version 6.5. He has developed in C/C++, Java and C# on Windows and Linux. He writes knowledge base articles to solve IT problems and publishes them on the Lubby Knowledge Platform.
Latest update: 14-01-2021