Linux show folder(directory) size 2017-10-25 08:33
Use du command to show the size of folder. Before testing this command we will create a directory and a file.
[root@virtual ~]# mkdir my_directory
[root@virtual ~]# cd my_directory/
[root@virtual my_directory]# touch my_file.txt
[root@virtual my_directory]# echo 'the content of file' > my_file.txt
[root@virtual my_directory]# cd ..
[root@virtual ~]# ll
total 16
drwxr-xr-x. 4 root root 4096 Oct 25 11:28 code
drwxr-xr-x. 4 root root 4096 Feb 8 2017 data
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Oct 25 20:23 my_directory
drwxr-xr-x. 5 root root 4096 Oct 25 11:51 tool
Use du to show the size of directory.The useful parameters of du are here.
-h, --human-readable
print sizes in human readable format (e.g., 1K 234M 2G)
-s, --summarize
display only a total for each argument
-c, --total
produce a grand total
The total example is here.
[root@virtual ~]# du -sh my_directory/
8.0K my_directory/
[root@virtual ~]# du -sh *
13M code
284M data
8.0K my_directory
60M tool
[root@virtual ~]# du -shc *
13M code
284M data
8.0K my_directory
60M tool
356M total
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