Viewing folder size

Posted by Jamsi in Linux on January 24th, 2006 | one response

Ever wanted to find the size of a folder under Linux (console)?

du -hs /path/to/folder
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One Response to “Viewing folder size”

  1. Jonesy says:
    February 2, 2006 at 8:30 am

    I find this one even more handy:

    du -h –max-depth=1 /path/to/folder

    It shows you the sizes off all folders in a directory.
    Very handy to find out what’s using all the space on your hard disks…

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