Common Commands for File System Management

Managing Disk Use (Tasks)

This lesson describes how to optimize Disk space can be optimized through locating unused files and huge directories. The given below is the list of the step-by-step instructions in this lesson.

1.         Displaying Blocks and Files Used

2.         Displaying the size of directories

3.         Finding Large Files

4.         Finding Files That Exceed a Given Size Limit

5.         Checking the Size of Directories:

6.         Finding and Removing Old and Inactive Files

7.         Listing the Newest Files

8.         Finding and Remove Old or Inactive Files

9.         Remove the inactive files that you listed in the previous step

10.       Clearing out temporary directories

11.       Finding and delete core files

12.       Deleting crash dump files

13.       What is fsck?

14.       The fsck Utility

15.       Where is fsck?

16.       When should an fsck run?

17.       How to use fsck?