How to Display the Size of Directories, Subdirectories, and Files
Display the size of one or more directories, subdirectories, and files by using the du command. Sizes are displayed in 512-byte blocks.
$ du [-as] [directory ...] |
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du |
Displays the size of each directory you specify, including each subdirectory beneath it. |
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-a |
Displays the size of each file and subdirectory, and the total number of blocks contained in the specified directory. |
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-s |
Displays the total number of blocks contained in the specified directory. |
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-h |
Displays the size of each directory in 1024 bytes. |
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-H |
Displays the size of each directory in 1000 bytes. |
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directory ... |
Identifies one or more directories you want to check. |
Examples—Displaying the Size of Directories, Subdirectories, and Files
The following example shows the total sizes of two directories.
$ du -s /var/adm /var/spool/lp 130 /var/adm 40 /var/spool/lp |
The following example shows the sizes of two directories, all of the subdirectories and files they contain, and the total number of blocks contained in each directory.
$ du /var/adm /var/spool/lp 2 /var/adm/log 2 /var/adm/passwd 2 /var/adm/acct/fiscal 2 /var/adm/acct/nite 2 /var/adm/acct/sum 8 /var/adm/acct 2 /var/adm/sa 2 /var/adm/sm.bin 130 /var/adm 4 /var/spool/lp/admins 2 /var/spool/lp/fifos/private 2 /var/spool/lp/fifos/public 6 /var/spool/lp/fifos 2 /var/spool/lp/requests/starbug 4 /var/spool/lp/requests 2 /var/spool/lp/system 2 /var/spool/lp/tmp/starbug 2 /var/spool/lp/tmp/.net/tmp/starbug 4 /var/spool/lp/tmp/.net/tmp 2 /var/spool/lp/tmp/.net/requests/starbug 4 /var/spool/lp/tmp/.net/requests 10 /var/spool/lp/tmp/.net 14 /var/spool/lp/tmp 40 /var/spool/lp |
The following example shows directory sizes in 1024 bytes.
du -h /usr/share/audio 796K /usr/share/audio/samples/au 797K /usr/share/audio/samples 798K /usr/share/audio |
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