There are many ways to evaluate disk space usage on Linux, and this post examines a number of commands that allow you to view used and available disk space. The df command stands for “disk free” and, ...

Disk quotas are a mechanism for limiting the amount of disk space and the number of files (inodes) that a user or a group of users can consume. These limits prevent individual users or services from ...

I recently built my first small server at home to learn and experiment on. It is currently running Ubuntu Server 12.04 headless. Ubuntu and my Freenas VM are installed on a 120gb SSD. I want to add ...

Logs, databases, and caches grow under /var. Learn why Linux admins monitor the /var directory to prevent disk issues and service failures.