I recently switched from a Windows server to a Linux server operating system and need Linux check disk space command. I am using Ubuntu 16.04/18.04/20.04 and CentOS 7.x/8.x server. How do I find out disk space utilization information using Linux command line option?
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I am a desktop support professional with experience working in a corporate call center environment. Recently, I started to admin RHEL based IBM Linux server. How do I determine how much disk space left in my Linux server? How do I find out how much disk space I have in Linux for each partition?
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I recently added SSD to my home server and reloaded the operating system. However, when I try to access my dm-crypt based old disk, I am getting the following error:

Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while...
WARNING: Duplicate VG name server01: Existing bc7YA8-eEXt-1aA1-OHTr-zJkA-ucd0-DsbRTc (created here) takes precedence over RIKiar-w3MG-Gzh5-VFWq-bkRT-9IFc-ia8k87
WARNING: Duplicate VG name server01: Existing bc7YA8-eEXt-1aA1-OHTr-zJkA-ucd0-DsbRTc (created here) takes precedence over RIKiar-w3MG-Gzh5-VFWq-bkRT-9IFc-ia8k87
Found volume group "server01" using metadata type lvm2
Found volume group "server01" using metadata type lvm2

Tutorial details
Difficulty level	Advanced
Root privileges	Yes
Requirements	LVM2+dm-crypt
Est. reading time	N/A

The problem is my volume group. I set to to server01 on both old and new hard disk. How can I rename old LVM2? How do I access my old hard disk?
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