Examples--Displaying the Size of Directories, Subdirectories, and Files

The following example displays the sizes of two directories and all the subdirectories they contain.

$ du /var/log /var/cron
4       /var/log
3250    /var/cron

The following example displays the sizes of two directories, all of the subdirectories and files they contain, and the total number of blocks contained in each directory.

$ du -a /var/log /var/cron
0       /var/log/authlog
0       /var/log/syslog
2       /var/log/sysidconfig.log
4       /var/log
3248    /var/cron/log
3250    /var/cron

The following example displays the total sizes of two directories.

$ du -s /var/log /var/cron
4      /var/log
3250   /var/cron