System Administration Guide: Advanced Administration

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