The du command estimate file space usage and summarize disk usage of each
\nFILE, recursively for directories.<\/p>\n
It displays the file system block usage for each file argument and for each
\ndirectory in the file hierarchy rooted in each direc tory argument. If no file
\nis specified it will use current directory.<\/p>\n
You must be wondering why I\u2019m throwing out a light on du command. du is
\ncommonly used by system administrators to automate monitoring and notification
\nprograms that help prevent directories from becoming full.<\/p>\n
Type du to display usage in current directory : Pass -h option to display output in Byte, Kilobyte, Megabyte, Gigabyte, Display the name and size of each png file in the \/ramdisk\/figs\/ directory as Another useful option is -c which produce a grand total: Show the disk usage of the \/home\/vivek subdirectory: Show only a summary of the disk usage of the \/home\/vivek Exclude files that match PATTERN. For example do not count *.obj or *.jpg A PATTERN is a shell pattern (not a regular perl or other expression). The Now display everything sorted by filesize: Display screenful output at a time as du generate more output than can fit on To find top 3 directories, enter : Finally here is one liner (without du command) that prints top 10 filesize in The du command estimate file space usage and summarize disk usage of each FILE, recursively for directories. It displays the file system block usage for each file argument and for each directory in the file hierarchy rooted in each direc tory argument. If no file is specified it will use current directory. But why use […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xfloyd.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xfloyd.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xfloyd.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xfloyd.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xfloyd.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=561"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/xfloyd.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":564,"href":"https:\/\/xfloyd.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561\/revisions\/564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xfloyd.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xfloyd.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xfloyd.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n$
\ndu<\/strong><\/code><\/p>\n
\nTerabyte and Petabyte (Human-readable output)
\n$ du
\n-h<\/strong><\/code><\/p>\n
\nwell as a total for all of the pngs:
\n$ du -hc
\n\/ramdisk\/figs\/*.png<\/code><\/p>\n
\n$ du
\n-c<\/code><\/p>\n
\n$ du
\n\/home\/vivek<\/code><\/p>\n
\n$ du -hs
\n\/home\/vivek<\/code><\/p>\n
\nfiles:<\/p>\n$ du -h --exclude='*.obj'\r\n$ du -h --exclude='*.jpg'<\/pre>\n
\npattern ? matches any one character, whereas * matches any string.<\/p>\nPipes and filters with du<\/h3>\n
\n$ du -sk .[A-z]* *| sort
\n-n<\/code><\/p>\n
\nthe console \/ screen:
\n$ du -h | less<\/code><\/p>\n
\n$ cd \/chroot
\n$ du -sk * | sort
\n-nr | head -3<\/code><\/p>\n4620348 var\r\n651972 home\r\n27896 usr\r\n21384 lib64<\/pre>\n
Working without du<\/h3>\n
\nMb (thanks to dreyser for submitting idea):
\n# find \/var -type f | xargs
\nls -s | sort -rn | awk '{size=$1\/1024; printf(\"%dMb %s\\n\", size,$2);}' | head<\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"