Ways to save Linux disk space and delete useless files

  1. Save Disk
    1. Get disk usage
    2. Docker
    3. Journal Logs

Save Disk

Get disk usage

# get usage
df -h

#find 20 lagest directory in /
sudo du -ah / | sort -rh | head -20

Docker


# remove all unruning docker images and caches
docker system prune -a

vim /etc/docker/daemon.json

{
    "log-driver": "json-file",
    "log-opts": {
        "max-size": "10m",
        "max-file": "10"
    }
}

Journal Logs

Execute

sudo journalctl --vacuum-size=100M
sudo journalctl --vacuum-time=10d