Simple Command to Check Folder Size on Linux

Simple command to check folder size on Linux:

  •  du -ah FOLDER_NAME 
where
du - Disk Usage
a - All Files
h - Human Readable Format

  •  To get top level directory size, just use
 du -h FOLDER_NAME 

  • You can control depth of directories using --max-level
du --max-depth=2 -h FOLDER_NAME

More Options:
du MAN PAGE

April 4th, 2008 in Linux, Systems