Disk Usage Checking

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Disk Usage Checking in Linux

'du'  Disk Usage summarize disk usage of each FILE, recursively for directories under Linux.

To check disk usage of your current working directory, enter the following in a console window 

[root@workbox home]# du

280 ./.kde/share/config
4 ./.kde/share/servicetypes
4 ./.kde/share/apps/korganizer/income.counter
4 ./.kde/share/apps/korganizer/income.delegated
4 ./.kde/share/apps/korganizer/income.cancel
4 ./.kde/share/apps/korganizer/income.reply
4 ./.kde/share/apps/korganizer/income.accepted
4 ./.kde/share/apps/korganizer/income.tentative
36 ./.kde/share/apps/korganizer
44 ./.kde/share/apps/kconf_update/log
48 ./.kde/share/apps/kconf_update
8 ./.kde/share/apps/kfileplaces
4 ./.kde/share/apps/konqueror/servicemenus
8 ./.kde/share/apps/konqueror
12 ./.kde/share/apps/kjots
4 ./.kde/share/apps/kabc/lock
8 ./.kde/share/apps/kabc
4 ./.kde/share/apps/ktimetracker
28 ./.kde/share/apps/blogilo

Above listing has been clipped due to size.

It shows you a very verbose output by default, which isn't always extremely useful. Thankfully it also includes a lot of extra options. To find the total size of files and folders in our current directory, listed by MB: 

[root@workbox home]# du -s -m *
   44960   dwmoar
   1       lost+found
   356     xbmc
   [root@workbox home]#

For more information about the du command use the command du --help]