iotop : Howto find the disk usage of each process in ubuntu linux

Jun 27, 2009Dipin KrishnaBoot and run Linux from a USB flash memory stick, Debian and Ubuntu, Disk usage, iotop, process and threads

You can use the utility “iotop” to find out the “disk usage of each process” running on your system.Type this command at terminal to install “iotop” on your system. $ sudo apt-get install iotop If you just want to know the cpu usage and memory usage of each process, then simply use “top” command for

Howto find Disk usage of Packages in ubuntu

The following command help you to find the disk space used by different packages in ubuntu open a terminal window and run the commanddpkg-query –show –showformat=’${Package;-50}\t${Installed-Size}\n’ | sort -k 2 -n | grep -v deinstall | awk ‘{printf “%.3f MB \t %s\n”, $2/(1024), $1}’ That will sort the packages by size, putting the largest ones