Linux Crash Course - The df and du Commands

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  • Опубликовано: 14 июн 2024
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    02:14 - Basic usage of the df command
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    05:41 - Viewing filesystem types with the df command
    06:39 - Excluding filesystem types from the output of the df command (such as tmpfs)
    10:31 - Basic usage of the df command
    11:45 - Viewing "human readable" output with the du command
    12:10 - Using the "max depth" option with the du command
    14:08 - Viewing "summary" information with the du command
    14:41 - Executing the du command against multiple directories
    15:49 - Viewing the total size of multiple directories with the du command
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    17:48 - Quick mention of the ncdu command
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Комментарии • 67

  • @davelamont
    @davelamont 2 года назад +9

    Your videos are always teaching me more about Linux. Keep em coming and I will keep watching and learning. Thanks for all you do.

  • @soubinan
    @soubinan 2 года назад +8

    Thank you for this video :)
    There is also the so useful du command with the threshold option to filter only bigger files
    `du -h -t 100M /tmp/*` for example to show only files greater than 100MB in /tmp

  • @mason8714
    @mason8714 2 года назад +1

    love learning new things from this channel - you are doing a great job Jay

  • @anandus3174
    @anandus3174 2 года назад +7

    I'm a linux admin who always use du -sch * inside /var/log to find disk consuming logs. I didn't know the meaning of s & c switches 😅😅

    • @d00dEEE
      @d00dEEE 2 года назад +1

      Ha ha, I do the same thing. I've got a bunch of commands that I use with switches that I just type from habit, probably looked them up decades ago, but forgot since then. 'netstat -tunlp' and 'ps -ealf' come to mind right away. I think I'll go man them now.

    • @anandus3174
      @anandus3174 2 года назад

      @@d00dEEE yup. I use
      netstat -ntpl
      ps aux
      😅😅

  • @JayantBB78
    @JayantBB78 2 года назад +1

    Wow. Another right to point, no nonsense video.
    Love your videos. Keep posting.

  • @lawrencedoliveiro9104
    @lawrencedoliveiro9104 2 года назад +1

    5:00 actually gibibytes. You need “-H” for decimal multiples, “-h” for binary.

  • @bw_merlin
    @bw_merlin Год назад +1

    This was super awesome and super helpful. Please keep this kind of content up.

  • @HopliteSecurity
    @HopliteSecurity 2 года назад

    This was a game changer! Thank you so much for this amazing video and keep up the fantastic work ❤

  • @auto117666
    @auto117666 2 года назад +9

    Good stuff. I always learn something new about these 40 year old command line utils from this channel. :)

    • @BDBD16
      @BDBD16 2 года назад +1

      30 Years as Linux was released 1991, if we are talking true Unix, try more like 50 years.

    • @shallex5744
      @shallex5744 Год назад

      @@BDBD16 possibly older than 30 if the commands were made for the GNU system before Linux came along

    • @BDBD16
      @BDBD16 Год назад

      @@shallex5744 I see what you did there you little daemon.

    • @shallex5744
      @shallex5744 Год назад

      @@BDBD16 i don't think i did anything

  • @omaralhalboosi2713
    @omaralhalboosi2713 2 года назад +2

    You are amazing sir, thank you from my heart for making it so clear and understandable.. all respect to you and the family from Chicago 🇺🇸

    • @MT-er6tl
      @MT-er6tl 2 года назад

      Maksunnserjf

  • @Enes-ho2rb
    @Enes-ho2rb 2 года назад

    This is really awesome tutorial. Great work man.

  • @srb1855
    @srb1855 2 года назад

    excellent and very informative video - particularly the exclude option for df ... and the max depth option for du. 👍

  • @TheInternetFan
    @TheInternetFan 3 месяца назад

    so grateful for this video. I had a '/' directory that was 93% full. Gave the :
    du -sm /
    and it was hanging.
    I guess --max-depth 1 could have helped navigate the filesys in order to pin point which subdirectory was too heavy. thank you for teaching me this switch.

  • @DL-xf3ur
    @DL-xf3ur 2 года назад

    Thanks as always Jay. Excellent.

  • @chillnacho
    @chillnacho 2 года назад

    I love this crash course series.

  • @voodooyam
    @voodooyam 2 года назад +1

    one useful flag in du is the --time It shows the time of the last modification to any file in the directory or subdirectory that you run it against.

  • @ArniesTech
    @ArniesTech 2 года назад

    Thanks as always for the informative content 💪🙏

  • @gauravsrivastava17
    @gauravsrivastava17 2 года назад

    Learning Linux will be so easy with these videos

  • @ciobysv23
    @ciobysv23 Год назад +1

    Regarding the output of the df -hT command is worth to mention that when using ext4, as the filesystem by default, 5% of the blocks will be reserved for the super-user, to avoid fragmentation and if we sum the output of the columns Used + Avail the value will be different from what's displayed in the Size column. (445 GB in this case) and the remaining 23 GB up to the displayed size of 468 GB is in fact the 5% reserved space. This reservation can be adjusted with the help of the tune2fs command.

  • @anthonychaple3031
    @anthonychaple3031 2 года назад +1

    Great video man 👍🏻. Hey would you consider making a video simulating the RHCSA exam? This series would compliment that perfectly and honestly all other videos i can find simulating the RHCSA exam are very low quality, i think one from you would help a lot of people. Thanks beforehand

  • @JohnBortins
    @JohnBortins 2 года назад +2

    Outstanding!

  • @sairak3514
    @sairak3514 Год назад

    Thank you so much!

  • @mihai6564
    @mihai6564 Месяц назад

    thanks for the video

  • @carlallison9530
    @carlallison9530 2 года назад

    Great teaching as usual the way you have mastery of the command line and how you move and insert different commands is a teaching within its self. please consider and do a teaching on how you move letters and commands and insert different commands with ease because to a newbie it's difficult to understand how you do what you do.

  • @undergrounder
    @undergrounder 2 года назад

    Thank you!

  • @NekoiNemo
    @NekoiNemo 2 года назад

    Thank you for mentioning ncdu. For some reason it's not mentioned often, especially to new users, and it's so much better for interactive use than just plain du. I wish somebody has told me about it years ago when i just started using linux

  • @wanak5795
    @wanak5795 2 года назад +1

    thank you you are great teacher

  • @SteveMacSticky
    @SteveMacSticky Год назад

    thanks very much

  • @lawrencedoliveiro9104
    @lawrencedoliveiro9104 2 года назад +1

    11:58 Actually mebibytes. And unlike the df command, you add “--si” to ask for decimal units. (Calling them “SI” units is misleading, since the binary multipliers are also defined by SI.)

  • @fordprefect7779
    @fordprefect7779 2 года назад

    Thanks!

  • @asdf51501
    @asdf51501 2 года назад

    Good commands to know.

  • @d00dEEE
    @d00dEEE 2 года назад

    Thanks for the reminder about ncdu! I was thinking "what's that tui-based du that sorts by size?" for most of the video, but couldn't remember what it was called.

  • @lawrencedoliveiro9104
    @lawrencedoliveiro9104 2 года назад +3

    8:07 You can specify the -x option multiple times, if you want to exclude more than one filesystem type from the listing. For example, on my Debian system, I have a filesystem of type “devtmpfs” mounted on /dev.

  • @10lauset
    @10lauset 2 года назад

    .. Cheers to you. ..

  • @janis.eglitis
    @janis.eglitis 2 года назад

    There's also a "gdu" command which you can install `sudo apt install gdu`.

  • @fazzanimohsen320
    @fazzanimohsen320 2 года назад +1

    gooooooooood

  • @lawrencedoliveiro9104
    @lawrencedoliveiro9104 2 года назад

    15:28 And here’s another feature of using du on multiple directories: what happens when one directory is contained within another?
    For example, my current directory contains source code for some programming project. It also has a .git subdirectory containing the Git commit history for that project. If I do
    du -ks .

    • @lawrencedoliveiro9104
      @lawrencedoliveiro9104 2 года назад

      that will show me the total usage for the entire directory. But if I do
      du -ks .git .
      now something wonderful happens: it first reports the usage for the .git subdirectory, then it shows the usage for the source directory _minus that of the .git subdirectory_ . So I see just the size of the current source tree, not including the commit history.

  • @user-ge3fv1qj4u
    @user-ge3fv1qj4u 3 месяца назад

    I always facing problem of getting / of getting 100% full. but unable to find exactly what directories or miunt point in / directories.

  • @benmcwhirter4566
    @benmcwhirter4566 Год назад

    Thanks. I just yeeted 24G from my home directory that I didn't no was there.

  • @cleightthejw2202
    @cleightthejw2202 2 года назад

    about the 'root drive'- if there are multiple drives is there only 1 that is root over all of them or is it ''root' from each drive? What would make it the 'root'? The fact that is it the initial and 'over all' controlling point that allows access to pretty much (if not) everything else?
    Also, what is a 'bootable' usb? Are al usb's bootable or no? If not, why not? What are instances of the differences- especially the bootable usb??
    Maybe you have vids on these already. I'm not aware of them if they do exist (obviously).

    • @bellatrix625
      @bellatrix625 2 года назад +1

      There is always one root directory in a linux system. If you have multiple drives with Linux installed then you will have multiple root directories in corresponding drives. And if you want to use it in one linux system then you need to mount it there as normal directory/file and this directory acts as root for that mounted drive.

  • @jasonthomas5647
    @jasonthomas5647 Год назад

    I installed 22.04 with standard “use entire disk” on my 170G SSD and df-H command says half of it is 100% full and I can’t acces the rest! I lonly have xfcedesktop and a few small programs running and it says it’s taking up 77G! No way! Now I can’t upgrade my system because it says there’s no more room. Something’s not right. How do I access the rest of the 80G and how do I clear out the bloat? I’m tempted to scrap the whole thing and start over!

  • @BobDoe_69
    @BobDoe_69 Год назад

    nice

  • @KR1ML0N
    @KR1ML0N 2 года назад

    Could you not just use ./ for current dir?

  • @cyberhifi2629
    @cyberhifi2629 2 года назад +2

    I think I am the first viewer of this video🙂🙂

    • @madebytl
      @madebytl 2 года назад

      You are my g

  • @TheFartfish
    @TheFartfish 2 года назад

    Food for algorithm ;-)

  • @rursus8354
    @rursus8354 2 года назад

    *Kernel panic!* (Perhaps once or twice a year)

  • @khawarbaig2074
    @khawarbaig2074 Год назад

    i really like it from pakistan

  • @BashirAhmed-uh9pp
    @BashirAhmed-uh9pp 2 года назад

    The good Device

  • @homelemon2579
    @homelemon2579 Год назад

    平衡

  • @BMcC78
    @BMcC78 Год назад

    Jay, the boring linux guy... this is great to fall asleep to.

  • @kennyroostam290
    @kennyroostam290 Год назад

    why du -h - -max-depth 1 /home/jay shows more folders than sudo du -hsc /home/jay*?

  • @simonsonjh
    @simonsonjh 2 года назад

    The -x option isn't much use on ZFS systems showing filesystems such as "rpool/USERDATA/simonson_mn5ygm"

  • @ManojKumarVishwas
    @ManojKumarVishwas 10 месяцев назад

    du -h -d1 /var/

  • @predragnikolic1259
    @predragnikolic1259 2 года назад

    Thanks!