[GLLUG] Size of a directory
Phil Dobbin
bukowskiscat at gmail.com
Tue Oct 30 14:59:13 UTC 2012
John G Walker wrote:
> I'm being told that I'm running out of disk space in my home directory.
> I don't believe this, but how do I check?
>
> I di know but I've forgotten,
>
Well, `du -ch | grep total` will give you the size of any directory you
are in in & `df -h` will show you the sizes of any disks/partitions that
are mounted.
Cheers,
Phil...
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