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Show the size of all subdirectories

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user@server
du -xh -d 1 /var/www/vhosts 2>/dev/null | sort -rh | head -20

Sums up the disk usage of each direct subdirectory and sorts by size in descending order. -x stays on one filesystem so mounted drives are not counted. Running it from the top down lets you find the space hog level by level.

Note: Without root, unreadable directories are missing and the total comes out too small.

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Analyze disk usage interactively with ncdu

$ncdu -x /var
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Find directories with the most files

$du --inodes -x -d 1 /var/www/vhosts 2>/dev/null | sort -rn | head -20
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Find the largest files in a directory

$find /var/www/vhosts -type f -size +500M -exec ls -lh {} + 2>/dev/null | sort -k5 -rh | head -20
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Clean up unused Docker data

#docker system prune
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Delete downloaded package files from the apt cache

#du -sh /var/cache/apt/archives && apt clean
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Disk usage of all webspaces under /var/www/vhosts

#du -sh /var/www/vhosts/*/ 2>/dev/null | sort -rh | head -20
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