Disk Usage Checking

Disk Usage Checking in Linux
'du' – Disk Usage summarize disk usage of each FILE, recursively for directories under Linux.

To check disk usage of your current working directory, enter the following in a console window [root@workbox home]# du

280 ./.kde/share/config 4 ./.kde/share/servicetypes 4 ./.kde/share/apps/korganizer/income.counter 4 ./.kde/share/apps/korganizer/income.delegated 4 ./.kde/share/apps/korganizer/income.cancel 4 ./.kde/share/apps/korganizer/income.reply 4 ./.kde/share/apps/korganizer/income.accepted 4 ./.kde/share/apps/korganizer/income.tentative 36 ./.kde/share/apps/korganizer 44 ./.kde/share/apps/kconf_update/log 48 ./.kde/share/apps/kconf_update 8 ./.kde/share/apps/kfileplaces 4 ./.kde/share/apps/konqueror/servicemenus 8 ./.kde/share/apps/konqueror 12 ./.kde/share/apps/kjots 4 ./.kde/share/apps/kabc/lock 8 ./.kde/share/apps/kabc 4 ./.kde/share/apps/ktimetracker 28 ./.kde/share/apps/blogilo Above listing has been clipped due to size.

It shows you a very verbose output by default, which isn’t always extremely useful. Thankfully it also includes a lot of extra options. To find the total size of files and folders in our current directory, listed by MB: [root@workbox home]# du -s -m * 44960  dwmoar 1      lost+found 356    xbmc [root@workbox home]# For more information about the du command use the command du --help

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