Google Cloud : check disk space usage

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How to check the used disk space of Google Persistent Disk without looking into each of them?

This feature currently is not available. As such, you can file a feature request through [this link](https://code.google.com/p/google-compute-engine/issues/list). — Faizan, Apr 12 '16 at 16:33

Dalibor Tesanovic · Answer 1 · 2020-03-09T19:21:24.260

The workaround with snapshot size will work in the console.

For more precise (and quicker) detailed overview you can SSH into your instance and do:

sudo df -h

The response you get will look similar to this:

YOURUSERNAME@YOURINSTANCENAME:~$ sudo df -h
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1       9.8G  9.3G     0 100% /
udev             10M     0   10M   0% /dev
tmpfs           743M   81M  663M  11% /run
tmpfs           1.9G     0  1.9G   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs           5.0M     0  5.0M   0% /run/lock
tmpfs           1.9G     0  1.9G   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/sdb        197G   60M  197G   1% /mnt/new_disk

Entries starting with /dev/ under 'Filesystem' are your disks.

the question states `without looking into each of them` – Varun Chandak Aug 09 '19 at 07:00 — Varun Chandak, Aug 09 '19 at 07:00

score 7 · Answer 2 · edited Nov 26 '17 at 12:06

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I use a simple workaround for this.

Create a snapshot of your persistent disk, and look at the snapshot size:

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edited Nov 26 '17 at 12:06

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answered Nov 26 '17 at 11:55

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Good workaround, too bad it takes so long though – NaturalBornCamper Oct 01 '18 at 14:32
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snapshot size is 'compressed' disk size, not real disk usage size – Palani May 24 '19 at 03:38

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 26 '16 at 13:45

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You can't see it in the disk preview as Faizan said, But you could Use Google StackDriver Monitoring tool to get a nice preview of your instances status.

answered Apr 26 '16 at 13:45

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score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Sep 19 '21 at 17:16

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Just install Monitoring Agents in https://console.cloud.google.com/monitoring/dashboards/resourceList/gce_instance then check the dashboard

answered Sep 19 '21 at 17:16

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score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Aug 23 '19 at 16:59

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In your terminal use this command to detect files size and which directory is more bulky:

ncdu /

answered Aug 23 '19 at 16:59

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