How do I determine the total size of a directory (folder) from the ...
1240 Is there a simple command to display the total aggregate size (disk usage) of all files in a directory (folder)? I have tried these, and they don't do what I want: ls -l, which only displays the size of the …
How do I get the size of a directory on the command line?
Feb 20, 2015 · 1) Strictly speaking, you can't. Linux has directories, not folders. 2) There's a difference between the size of a directory (which is a special file holding inodes that point to other files), and the …
How can I calculate the size of a directory? - Unix & Linux Stack Exchange
Oct 12, 2010 · The ls -ldh command only shows the size of inode structure of a directory. The metric is a reflection of size of the index table of file names, but not the actual size of the file content within the …
Fast way to display the size of each subdirectory in a directory
Sep 3, 2016 · 18 I want to check which directories take most disk space, quickly. I tried du -sh subdir but it took more than 20 seconds on bigger directories. I'm not sure how to display the size of all the …
How do I get the total size of everything in a directory in one line ...
Oct 29, 2015 · Thanks! Remarks: On macOS 11 Big Sur the option needed for du is -d (as in "depth"). du -d 0 only gives you the size of your current directory (".") without listing the directories in it. du -d 1 …
How to list recursive file sizes of files and directories in a ...
87 How do I list all the files in a directory and their recursive file sizes? ---edit I want to see the sizes 'rolled up' to the parent directories in the directory listed. I don't want to see the child directories or …
How do you sort du output by size? - Unix & Linux Stack Exchange
The accepted answer sort -h worked for me in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS in Aug 2017. First I find my mounted drive by cd /mnt (mounted by UUID in fstab). Then I do du >~/dumnt.out then sort -h ~/dumnt.out …
How to get the size of a large directory? - Unix & Linux Stack Exchange
Sep 29, 2023 · How can I get the size of a large directory with lot of small sub-directories on Linux? I just want the total size the parent directory. I tried du -s mydirectory/ but it is taking a long time to e...
Finding files that use the most disk space - Unix & Linux Stack Exchange
3 Disk Usage Analyzer (AKA Baobab) There is a simple and effective way to find the size of every file and directory on Ubuntu: Applications > Accessories > Disk Usage Analyzer In this window, click …
command line - How to list the size of a directoy and subdirectories ...
Oct 8, 2016 · Is there a command to list a directory total size and then each sub-folder and files inside it . I also want to sort them by increasing order so that I can see which folder is greater in size.