Managing Disks and Space

Disk Info

df -h : displays the information of device name, total blocks, total disk space, used disk space, available disk space and mount points on a file system (-h displays output in readable format).

sudo du -mxsh * | sort -n : The du command summarises the disk usage of each file.

mount | grep root : displays mount points with "root" in them
sudo pvdisplay : display attributes of a physical volume
sudo lvdisplay : display attributes of a logical volume

Disk restructuring & resizing (LVM)

• sudo lvremove /dev/fedora_baselmania/home
• sudo lvextend -L+90G /dev/fedora_baselmania/root
• sudo resize2fs /dev/mapper/fedora_baselmania-root

Other

sudo yum clean all : cleans cache