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Troubleshooting disk usage on a Linux server with ncdu

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Dec 6, 2016

That pointed to a disk is full situation. Not good! Now I have to find out what application or applications chewed up whatever free disk space I had left. That’s when I thought about the easiest tool to use when troubleshooting disk usage on a Linux server – ncdu.

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