https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-linux/how-to-get-directory-size/m-p/4717546#M59376 $ du /dirpath<BR />The above command would give you the directory size of the directory <BR /><BR /><BR />$ du -ah<BR />This command would display in its output, not only the directories but also all the files that are present in the current directory. Note that 'du' always counts all files and directories while giving the final size in the last line. But the '-a' displays the filenames along with the directory names in the output. '-h' is once again human readable format.<BR /><BR /> Fri, 10 Dec 2010 08:13:15 GMT ganesh pink 2010-12-10T08:13:15Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-linux/how-to-get-directory-size/m-p/4717541#M59371 Hi,<BR /><BR />how to get particular directory size ?<BR /><BR />Thanks,<BR /> Wed, 24 Nov 2010 10:44:34 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-linux/how-to-get-directory-size/m-p/4717541#M59371 cutefriend 2010-11-24T10:44:34Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-linux/how-to-get-directory-size/m-p/4717542#M59372 Hi cutefriend,<BR /><BR />try "du -sk ." while positioning yourself in the directory<BR /><BR />or "du -sk /path/to/directory"<BR /><BR />HTH Wed, 24 Nov 2010 11:01:24 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-linux/how-to-get-directory-size/m-p/4717542#M59372 FLQ 2010-11-24T11:01:24Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-linux/how-to-get-directory-size/m-p/4717543#M59373 <!--!*#-->What does "directory size" mean to you?<BR /><BR /> ls -ld directory_name<BR /> du -ks directory_name Wed, 24 Nov 2010 14:35:01 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-linux/how-to-get-directory-size/m-p/4717543#M59373 Steven Schweda 2010-11-24T14:35:01Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-linux/how-to-get-directory-size/m-p/4717544#M59374 Hi Cuty,<BR /><BR />By "directory size" I trust:<BR />1.) How much space is the directory (folder?) occupying?<BR /><BR />Ans: du -s -k /dirpath<BR /> du -s -k /dir/path/dirfolder<BR /><BR />2.) Capacity of the directory/folder to hold files (in terms of MBytes, Gbytes or Tbyets?)<BR /><BR />Ans: df -h /dirpath<BR /> df -h /dir/path/dirfolder<BR /><BR />2.1) No of Files (aka inodes) capacity and usage -- i.e. how many files aer stashed in its placeholder filesystem<BR /><BR />Ans: df -i /dirpath<BR /> df -i /dir/path/dirfolder<BR /><BR /><BR />3.) How many files are contained there at?<BR /><BR />Ans: df -i /dirpath (if dir/folder is a filesystem)<BR /> df -i /dir/path/dirfolder (if dir/folder is a filesystem)<BR /> ls -lR /dirpath | wc -l<BR /> ls -lR /dir/path/dirfolder |wc -l <BR /><BR /><BR />Hope this helps.<BR /> Wed, 24 Nov 2010 15:04:49 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-linux/how-to-get-directory-size/m-p/4717544#M59374 Alzhy 2010-11-24T15:04:49Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-linux/how-to-get-directory-size/m-p/4717545#M59375 It's very common answer in unix.<BR /><BR />use du -sh (or) du -sk<BR /><BR />see, below, U can get the directory size for /var/log<BR /><BR />root@chitti # du -sh /var/log<BR /> 102K /var/log<BR /> Thu, 25 Nov 2010 04:49:55 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-linux/how-to-get-directory-size/m-p/4717545#M59375 bullz 2010-11-25T04:49:55Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-linux/how-to-get-directory-size/m-p/4717546#M59376 $ du /dirpath<BR />The above command would give you the directory size of the directory <BR /><BR /><BR />$ du -ah<BR />This command would display in its output, not only the directories but also all the files that are present in the current directory. Note that 'du' always counts all files and directories while giving the final size in the last line. But the '-a' displays the filenames along with the directory names in the output. '-h' is once again human readable format.<BR /><BR /> Fri, 10 Dec 2010 08:13:15 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-linux/how-to-get-directory-size/m-p/4717546#M59376 ganesh pink 2010-12-10T08:13:15Z