Disk Usage Useful Command
Note - You can replace /home with correct '/' drive on your server.
1. Checking the disk usage - du -sch *
2. Checking the disk usage of hidden files - du -shc .??* *
3. Find error logs more than 250 MB on server - find /home -name "error_log*" -size +250M -exec ls -hl {} \;
4. Find Backups more than 100 MB on server - /home -name "*backup" -size +100M -exec ls -lh {} \;
5. Find zip files on server - find -name "*.zip" | awk '{system ("du -sh "$1)}' ;
6.Find tar files on server - find -name "*.tar" | awk '{system ("du -sh "$1)}' ;
7. Find tar.gz files on server - find -name "*.tar.gz" | awk '{system ("du -sh "$1)}' ;
8. Find zip and tar files on server - cd /home; ll | grep zip; ll | grep tar;
9. Remove stuff from trash 2 days and older - find /home/*/.trash/ -ctime +2 -type f -exec rm -fv {} \;
10. Removing backups -
rm -rf */backup-*;
rm -rf */application_backups;
rm -rf */softaculous_backups;
11. Removing Error log - rm -f */public_html/error_log ;
12. Removing stderr.log - rm -f /usr/local/apache/logs/stderr.log.*
