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Managing Disk space

There is lot of scenarios where we need to take care of the Disk Space and in the real world if we are not taking care of the disk space, there could be serious performance issue. For a process to perform well, it needs both memory space as well as disk space.
We can use the disk free (df) command to identify the amount of free space available and if we want to find our consumption of file directory rather than file system, probably we can use disk usage (du) command. And if we use du with (-s) option this will give the summary rather than moving to each directory.
Once we identified the disk space and utilization, probably we can find out the file which is consuming more space by using the find command with size option.
Once we identified the files which are having larger space, the same can be reduced by using the compress and zip command.  We can use the extract the files by using the uncompress and unzip command that are compressed already.


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