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Old 06-22-2005, 09:06 AM   #1
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Simple Question - How much space is a dir taking up?

Its a simple request... but df only seems to tell me the entire hard drive... I just want to know what /home/username/subfolder/folder is taking up. Simple thing I just never realized I didnt know how to do

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Old 06-22-2005, 09:13 AM   #2
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du -h /home/username/subfolder/folder
 
Old 06-22-2005, 09:14 AM   #3
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Run du command.

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cd /home/me/you
du -ch
 
Old 06-22-2005, 09:16 AM   #4
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Excellant... thank both of you very much
 
Old 06-22-2005, 09:17 AM   #5
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It will usually report whatever size you set your inode block size to be during the initall format and partitioning..

Standard is 4096 size inodes and blocks.. so it'll probably report 4k being used..
 
  


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