It is a great tool for monitoring disk usage per directory basis on a headless server. So, it is really easy to install. By default, ncdu will show you the sub-directories of your current working directory.
You can see how much disk space each directory consumed. Rmano is there a single command that works with hardlinks? CharlieParker no that I know of I'm looking right now at a folder I just copied from an external drive. It contains four files no hardlinks. I've seen this issue before comparing a folder on an external drive.
Is there any unix command that will reliably report two folders containing identical files as being the same "size"? Show 1 more comment. You can use the df command to know the free space in the filesystem containing the directory: df -h. Pacifist Pacifist 4, 1 1 gold badge 10 10 silver badges 14 14 bronze badges.
This is useful to include a possibly large. Alternatively in zsh you can setopt globdots to glob dotfiles by default. What does the -- do? I know it applies to shell built-ins to end option arguments, but du is not a built-in, and I don't see this usage documented for du : linux. If you just want to know the total size of a directory then jump into it and run: du -hs If you also would like to know which sub-folders take up how much disk space?!
Chrispie Chrispie 3, 2 2 gold badges 12 12 silver badges 15 15 bronze badges. It seems on some perhaps older? I needed to see the size of folders of my current directory, not each and every subdirectories and files.
This solved my problem — imans Make your life easy and use ncdu. You get per folder summaries that are easily browsable. Stephen Rauch 3, 14 14 gold badges 19 19 silver badges 32 32 bronze badges. Teque5 Teque5 1, 1 1 gold badge 7 7 silver badges 4 4 bronze badges. Overall this offers the right amount of interactivity which may be particularly useful in command-line only environments. Linux has a few built-in utilities that help provide that information. The df command stands for "disk-free," and shows available and used disk space on the Linux system.
Launch it to see all disks detected by your computer, and click a partition to see details about it, including space used and space remaining.
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Please share in the comments. The du command stands for disk usage. This command is included by default in most Linux distributions. You can display the size of your current directory by typing du in the command line:. The system should display a list of the contents of your home directory, with a number to the left. That number is the size of the object in kilobytes. Each entry will start with a number and a letter. The number is the amount of space used, and the letter usually K, M, or G indicates Kilobytes, Megabytes, or Gigabytes.
For example:. To find the size of a specific directory different from your current working directory. The du command allows you to specify a directory to examine:.
You may see some entries with an error, as in the image below. This happens when your user account does not have permission to access a particular directory. Use the sudo or su command to get access privileges:. You can use the su command to switch to the root user account instead.
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