I ran out of disk space on an ubuntu server. How can I know how the disk space is being used?

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Published on 2010-06-17T00:47:03Z Indexed on 2010/06/17 0:53 UTC
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I ran out of disk space on an ubuntu server. How can I know how the disk space is being used so I can clean up the disk / delete unnecessary files?

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