How to get available/free sdcard space in android with adb command

Question

I am trying to get free sdcard space with adb command, but I could not able to achieve. Any suggestions how to get the sdcard space.

Pyre

How do you get the results in KB? My df command returns GB which is not granular enough – Cassandra

@JoshGraham use df -h for human readable. – Vacate

Answer 1

Use df, as with any Linux distro. Not all Android devices may have it, but it usually seems to be available.

Shawn

Thanks df command works!! I tried on Samsung SIII, Note, Nexus 5, SIV and it worked. To get the free space for sdcard, I used this command: adb shell df /data – Pyre

If you don't have the df command in the shell try to run it from within busybox: adb shell busybox df -h | grep '^/dev/fuse' . If you don't have busybox, install it :-) – Overscrupulous

I'm getting busybox, since df options (like -h) aren't working. – Justify

Answer 2

1. df: Disk space details.

   adb shell df

2. du: Disk space used by the specified files and subdirectories.

   adb shell du

3. df -h: Disk space details in KB/MB format.

   adb shell df -h

4. du -h: Disk space used by the specified files and subdirectories in KB/MB format.

   adb shell du -h

5. For specific folder desk space details.

   adb shell df /system

6. For specific folder and sub-directories desk space details

   adb shell du /system

7. Only for the root level folders

   adb shell du -x -sh /*

Submariner

Answer 3

df -h to find disk usage and to find big files:

du -a <the_dir> | sort -n -r | head -n 20

Unfold

Answer 4

du | sort -n -r will mess up the hierarchy of folders, so I prefer -t, --threshold=SIZE to set a threshold.

But du on my Android phone doesn't have -t, --threshold=SIZE option

So I found an alternative:

du -m | awk '$1 >= 100'

(Display directories with a size >= 100MB)

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