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Find which filesystem a directory is on

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findmnt -T /var/www/vhosts

Determines the filesystem the path resides on and shows mount point, source, type and options. Important before moving data or freeing up space, because a directory may live on its own partition. Options like noexec or ro also explain some errors.

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Show mounted filesystems with mount options

$findmnt -lo TARGET,SOURCE,FSTYPE,OPTIONS -t ext4,xfs,btrfs,vfat,nfs,nfs4,cifs
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List disks and partitions

$lsblk -o NAME,SIZE,TYPE,FSTYPE,MOUNTPOINT,UUID
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Analyze disk usage interactively with ncdu

$ncdu -x /var
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Calculate the total size of all files of one type

$find /var/www/vhosts/example.com/httpdocs/wp-content/uploads -type f -iname '*.mp4' -printf '%s\n' | awk '{s+=$1; n++} END {printf "%d Dateien, %.1f MB\n", n, s/1048576}'
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Check inode usage of filesystems

$df -ih -x tmpfs -x devtmpfs -x squashfs
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Compare two directories for differences

$diff -rq /var/www/vhosts/example.com/httpdocs /var/www/vhosts/example.com/staging
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