How to check remaining space in storage device EC2

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I've connected to amazon Ec2 instance through putty. How can I check the remaining space in instance?

score 112 · Accepted Answer · edited Oct 31 '19 at 09:28

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After you login using putty, enter command:

$ df -h

df - Disk filesystem -h is human readable format

edited Oct 31 '19 at 09:28

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answered Oct 22 '14 at 20:02

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score 56 · Answer 2 · edited Oct 31 '19 at 09:28

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After you login using putty, enter command:

$ df -hT /dev/xvda1

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answered Oct 31 '19 at 09:15

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This is a more useful answer than the accepted one. – Anshuman Kumar Apr 19 '20 at 17:19
the question is how do I check what is inside xvda1 volume – albanx May 02 '22 at 14:53

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 23 '21 at 05:55

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df - Disk Filesystem

-h is human readable format

df -f

-i is inode format

df -i

answered Dec 23 '21 at 05:55

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divibisan · Answer 4 · 2023-07-07T16:30:30.073

Depending on the kinds of storage volumes you have mounted, df -h can often hang or take a very long time to run. If this happens, you can check storage on your EBS volumes by running df with the -l, --local argument:

df -hl

The --local argument limits it to local file systems (which include EBS volumes) so it runs much more quickly, while the -h argument makes it print sizes in a human readable format

-h, --human-readable  print sizes in human readable format (e.g., 1K 234M 2G)
-l, --local           limit listing to local file systems

How to check remaining space in storage device EC2

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