Use DD to Create File of any Size
Use the DD command to create a 10 MB (10*1024*1024=10485760 bytes) size file named testfile_10MB
dd if=/dev/zero of=testfile_10MB bs=10485760 count=1
Use the DD command to create a 10 MB (10*1024*1024=10485760 bytes) size file named testfile_10MB
dd if=/dev/zero of=testfile_10MB bs=10485760 count=1
Show space used by deb packages installed sorted by size (ubuntu, debian and like)
dpkg-query -W -f='{Installed-Size;10}t{Package}n' | sort -k1,1n
Show size of the files and directories sorted by size
du -sk * | sort -rn
du shows the ‘disk usage’ – the space taken up by the files and folders in the current directory.
du -bh | more
A Python function to return readable size using the given size(KB)
# Returns a more readable format of the given data. For example, getReadableSize(1024) returns "1 MB"
def getReadableSize(size):
unit = "KB"
size = float(size)
final = size
if(size >= 1024):
unit = "MB"
final= "%.02f" % (size / 1024)
size = (size / 1024)
if(size >= 1024):
unit = "GB"
final= "%.02f" % (size / 1024)
size = (size / 1024)
return str(final) + " " + unit
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