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Title: Text mode folder space used information
Post by: taraj on March 15, 2004, 06:40:05 PM

How to know in text mode that how much space a specific folder is using. In gui we can find this on right-click on folder and then properties.

Title: Text mode folder space used information
Post by: neo on March 16, 2004, 10:50:24 AM

for this there is a comand called du (ie disk usage).

Title: Text mode folder space used information
Post by: aaa on March 16, 2004, 08:12:31 PM

Specifically: du -sh
's' to keep a bunch of text from covering screen, h for size in Kb/Mb/Gb instead of bytes.