[102134] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Get directory size?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark McGlone)
Tue Dec 1 15:55:22 1998
From: Mark McGlone <dmcglon1@san.rr.com>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1998 12:52:04 -0800
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On Tue, 01 Dec 1998, George Lenzer wrote:
>Is there a way to find out how much data a directory contains? Although
>I've been using Linux for close to eight months now, I still haven't found
>any obvious way to get 'ls' or 'df' to display the size of a directory's
>contents in K or Megs. Any suggestions?
>
the 'du' command for disk usage
for summary of whole directory in megabytes:
du -ms
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