How to check hard drive space

[jcka005]

A command I use to analyse where space is being used is

du -sk * | sort -n

which will report, in size order, where the highest usage is in the directory it's run from.

***hello..does this work with ubuntu 11.04?? thankyou..

[reptilez]

It does work on 12.10.

Edit: If I run this from my home-folder (du -sk * | sort -n) (In terminal), is there a way to make it show hidden folders/files ?

[pmon]

Here's a decent looking list of options in addition to the example I provided.

http://smartproteam.com/linux-command-du-disk-usage/

AFAIK, with the options I use that command should work in most Linux distros and Unix too!