Resizing a root partition on Linux VM

Well, I recently learned that one of my VMs had its root partition full. The following document on the root partition was resized on that VM. It’s not gonna be something exciting or anything special. However, I feel like I should document anyway, in case I forget on how to do that in the future, and partly due to I no longer work with these type of work as my daily job anymore....

September 16, 2024 · 4 min · 660 words · kenno

Using df command showing size in megabytes

Happy New Year 2024! This is going to be a very short post on how to use ‘df’ command to display the disk space usage in megabytes. To display the output in MB (megabytes), we can use the -m flag with the df command as the following: ❯ df -m Filesystem 1M-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on devtmpfs 4 0 4 0% /dev tmpfs 852 0 852 0% /dev/shm tmpfs 341 6 336 2% /run /dev/mapper/almalinux-root 7578 2068 5511 28% / /dev/vda2 1014 280 735 28% /boot /dev/vda1 599 8 592 2% /boot/efi tmpfs 171 0 171 0% /run/user/1000 It’s simple, isn’t it?...

January 1, 2024 · 1 min · 103 words · kenno

Check disk usage on root (/) partition excluding other partitions

While checking the root partition on my desktop today, I noticed that its usage is at 89% with just 6GiB free. For this reason, I wanted to find out what’s consuming most spaces and whether I can clean it up a bit. # df -h / Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/fedora_watamem-root 56G 47G 6.3G 89% / The first two commands that come to my mind are du and ncdu....

September 22, 2022 · 3 min · 544 words · kenno