Change to the directory where the files you want to check are located.
Display the size of the files.
$ ls [-lh] [-s] |
-l |
Displays a list of files and directories in long format, showing the sizes in bytes. (See the example that follows.) |
-h |
Scales file and directory sizes into Kbytes, Mbytes, Gbytes, or Terabytes when the file or directory size is larger than 1024 bytes. This option also modifies the output displayed by the -o, -n, -@, and -g options to display file or directory sizes in the new format. For more information, see ls(1). |
-s |
Displays a list of the files and directories, showing the sizes in blocks. |
The following example shows that the lastlog and messages files are larger than the other files in the /var/adm directory.
$ cd /var/adm $ ls -lh total 148 drwxrwxr-x 5 adm adm 512 Nov 26 09:39 acct/ -rw------- 1 uucp bin 0 Nov 26 09:25 aculog drwxr-xr-x 2 adm adm 512 Nov 26 09:25 exacct/ -r--r--r-- 1 root other 342K Nov 26 13:56 lastlog drwxr-xr-x 2 adm adm 512 Nov 26 09:25 log/ -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 20K Nov 26 13:55 messages drwxr-xr-x 2 adm adm 512 Nov 26 09:25 passwd/ drwxrwxr-x 2 adm sys 512 Nov 26 09:39 sa/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root sys 512 Nov 26 09:49 sm.bin/ -rw-rw-rw- 1 root bin 0 Nov 26 09:25 spellhist drwxr-xr-x 2 root sys 512 Nov 26 09:25 streams/ -rw-r--r-- 1 root bin 3.3K Nov 26 13:56 utmpx -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Nov 26 10:17 vold.log -rw-r--r-- 1 adm adm 19K Nov 26 13:56 wtmpx |
The following example shows that the lpsched.1 file uses two blocks.
$ cd /var/lp/logs $ ls -s total 2 0 lpsched 2 lpsched.1 |