Check hard disk usage per directory

alaios · 10-09-2006, 02:16 PM

Hello to everyone

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My hard disk now is full
I want to clean it a little but i need some software support. Do u know any cool programme that can show me how much disk space each folder uses? Any simple console command that can help me view directories and the disk space they consume..

pljvaldez · 10-09-2006, 02:20 PM

http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/how-do-...sd-filesystem/

http://www.dsl.org/cookbook/cookbook_10.html

du -h (the h option is for human readable -- i.e. K,M,G) will give you size of files/directories

trickykid · 10-09-2006, 03:14 PM

I always cd into the directory I want to do a listing on and do:

du -sh *

This will give you the output of all the files and directories of the present working directory instead of printing off every single file and subdirectory.

For example, I want to see the sizes of ever directory in my home directory:

tricky@fs1:~$ du -sh *
4.0K Mail
187M archives
533M backup
9.8M downloads
28K perl
20M public_html

Without the -s in -sh, it will print every single file and subdirectory beyond, which just looks messy to me.

marozsas · 10-09-2006, 03:37 PM

You asked for a cool program ? Well, try kdirstat. It can show what are the big files/folders in graphical mode ! very cool...

trickykid · 10-09-2006, 03:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by marozsas

You asked for a cool program ? Well, try kdirstat. It can show what are the big files/folders in graphical mode ! very cool...

du is cool enough.. why download and install third party tools when bash has everything you need already..