How to get directory size?

[cutefriend]

Hi,

how to get particular directory size ?

Thanks,

[FLQ]

Hi cutefriend,

try "du -sk ." while positioning yourself in the directory

or "du -sk /path/to/directory"

HTH

[Steven Schweda]

What does "directory size" mean to you?

ls -ld directory_name
du -ks directory_name

[Alzhy]

Hi Cuty,

By "directory size" I trust:
1.) How much space is the directory (folder?) occupying?

Ans: du -s -k /dirpath
du -s -k /dir/path/dirfolder

2.) Capacity of the directory/folder to hold files (in terms of MBytes, Gbytes or Tbyets?)

Ans: df -h /dirpath
df -h /dir/path/dirfolder

2.1) No of Files (aka inodes) capacity and usage -- i.e. how many files aer stashed in its placeholder filesystem

Ans: df -i /dirpath
df -i /dir/path/dirfolder


3.) How many files are contained there at?

Ans: df -i /dirpath (if dir/folder is a filesystem)
df -i /dir/path/dirfolder (if dir/folder is a filesystem)
ls -lR /dirpath | wc -l
ls -lR /dir/path/dirfolder |wc -l


Hope this helps.

[bullz]

It's very common answer in unix.

use du -sh (or) du -sk

see, below, U can get the directory size for /var/log

root@chitti # du -sh /var/log
102K /var/log

[ganesh pink]

$ du /dirpath
The above command would give you the directory size of the directory


$ du -ah
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.