Linux ls (maybe) help

[Zach]

How do I find out how much disk space is being used by a directory?

 

[Cyph3r]

Use the command "du". Go into the directory and type "du", or "du -s" to get just the total. I belive "du -k" will get you the size in kilobytes. Check out the man pages..Regards

 

[Zach]

I've wondered this wfor a while, and it's weird that I haven't come accross it before. Oh well.. live and learn.

 

[Damaged]

You don't have to cd into the directory to use du to see it's contents, just do du <directory name>. Part of what du does is cd to that directory. Also, I prefer the -h (human readable) it'll automatically do the K, M, G thang depending.

 

[Zach]

I'm framilier with that. -h is what I usually use when doing df, which was happy to report that my / partition was 100% full today (made a backup of /etc/httpd, had to move it obviously). No wonder apache wouldn't start, with no reason to boot. Hence why I want to see how big the duirectories are..