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You can use the utility " iotop " to find out the " disk usage of each process " running on your system. Type this command at terminal to install " iotop " on your system. $ sudo apt-get install iotop If you just want to know the cpu usage and memory usage of each process, then simply use "top" command for it. " iotop " is also same as " top ", but it shows disk usage of all processes and threads.

The following command help you to find the disk space used by different packages in ubuntu open a terminal window and run the command dpkg-query --show --showformat='${Package;-50}\t${Installed-Size}\n' | sort -k 2 -n | grep -v deinstall | awk '{printf "%.3f MB \t %s\n", $2/(1024), $1}' That will sort the packages by size, putting the largest ones on the bottom. you can pipe(|} the output for last 10 by using | tail -n 10 at the end of the command