Re: [aclug-L] Size of dir tree?

[Jonathan Hall <jonhall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

'du' or 'du -s'

du shows the size of the dir, and all subdirs individually.  du -s shows
the entire size of the dir and all subdirs together.

For example:

du /var
du -s /var


On Sun, 28 Feb 1999, Greg House wrote:

> This is a pretty basic question, but I haven't been able to easily find the
> answer.  How do you get the total size of a directory tree.  For example, if
> one were repartitioning and wanted to know the size of /usr or /var, how
> would you get it?
> 
> Thanks,
> Greg
> 
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