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Estimate file space usage.

  • Get a sum of the total size of a file/folder in human readable units:

du -sh {{path/to/file_or_folder}}

  • List file sizes of a directory and any subdirectories in KB:

du -k {{path/to/file_or_folder}}

  • Get recursively, individual file/folder sizes in human readable form:

du -ah {{path/to/folder}}

  • List the human-readable sizes of directories for 2 levels of depth below the specified directory:

du -h -d 2 {{path/to/folder}}