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how to check folder size in linux

# show all folder size in the current directory
du -h --max-depth=1

check folder size in linux terminal

du -sh /home/user/

show directory size linux

du -sh /home/george
2.1G    /home/george

how to get the size of directory in linux

du -sh /var

check directory size linux

du -sh *
du -sh /directory
du -shx /directory 

command to check size of folder in linux

du -lh --max-depth=1 --block-size=M | sort -nr

how to get the folder size in linux

du -sh folder/ 

get folder size linux

#This shows you the folder size in human readable format

sudo du -sh /folder

check folders sizes linux

du -sh -- *

find folder size in linux

df -sh .

check directory size

du -sh /home/george

check directory size linux

du -sh *
du -sh /directory
du -shx /directory 

check total folder size linux

#and this shows all sizes in that directory/folder
ls -lsh

how to check directory size in linux

du -h --max-depth=1 /directory
du -sh *
du -sh /directory
du -shx /directory

linux get folder size

df -h .; du -sh -- * | sort -hr

#Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
#/dev/sdb2       206G  167G   29G  86% /
#115M    node_modules
#2.1M    examples
#68K     src
#4.0K    webpack.config.js
#4.0K    README.md
#4.0K    package.json

how to get directory size in linux

du -a / | sort -n -r | head -n 10
5351116 /
2462616 /usr
2153492 /home
2153472 /home/george
1571924 /usr/lib

get Linux directory size

du -sh directory_path
-s, --summarize
         display only a total for each argument

  -h, --human-readable
         print sizes in human readable format (e.g., 1K 234M 2G)