Questions tagged [du]
"du" is the Linux command for reporting Disk Usage
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du command with -h option modifies the displayed result
trying to understand the basics of du command is not that simple for me . For instance there is this -h option which is defined as printing in "human readable format" . The problem is that ...
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Using ncdu, how to know the number of items in current dir, not total count in childtree
I love using ncdu to browse files in Debian (and also MacOS), yet I can't figure out a way to display the number of items in the current directory, rather than the total amount of files including all ...
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Inconsistent du output on /usr
First here is the size of /usr :
$ sudo du -sh /usr
6.2G /usr
$
When doing a du on the directories at the / and selecting /usr, I get this :
$ sudo du -sh /*/ | grep /usr
du: cannot access '/proc/...
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2T file system full! du says only 70G consumed. Where is the rest?
When I run
df / I get
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-ubuntu--lv 2.0T 1.9T 0 100% /
When I run
sudo ncdu -x /
I get
Total disk usage: ...
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Synology NAS: deleted files but space won't go down
I've been facing this problem with my Synology lately: I use the Download Station to download torrents in the folder /volume3/video.
I now have downloaded 43 files and I can list them running the ...
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exclude all directories and subdirectories from du/diff command in calculations
I would like to find difference in bytes in files.
However, du/diff command with -a list also directories and subdirectories.
I want only the files in subdirectories and directories, not these ones.
I ...
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Why does du command show wrong size of log directory?
I'm running:
du -h
These are the results:
112K ./YaST2/storage-inst
172K ./YaST2/storage-03
56K ./YaST2/storage-02
48K ./YaST2/storage-01
60K ./YaST2/storage
64K ./YaST2/control-...
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How to run xargs utility on all expanded lines of input?
I have a file with a list of files and directories, containing the wildcard *. I am trying to output the size of the entries with du and would like a grand total.
If I start with:
cat file | xargs du -...
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Linux: inconsistency reported by 'du'
xrfang@lky-web-02:/tmp/nnrres/ready$ ls -alh
total 249M
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 249M Oct 27 08:29 .
drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 4.0K Oct 17 22:35 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 303 Oct 24 13:11 ...
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Only print terminal directories in "du"?
Is there a generalized solution for getting only the deepest directories? Counting slash characters won't work, because if I change to --max-depth=4, the deepest directories won't all have the same ...
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How to check what was moved when using “mv” and the process stops due to permissions issues?
I want to move a folder (test) on our server from /home/data to /home/projects/data. What I did is to use mv.
It did not move the folder in the end for some permission problems. However, the folder ...
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Odd behavior by 'du' with `dd` on a BTRFS disk showing 0 filesize.. Anyone got some clues or thoughts around it?
Been tinkering with btrfs with consideration of moving from ext4 to that.
However, when wanting to compare R/W speeds, I seem to have come across an (to me at least) unusual behavior by du on the ...
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Why are df and du command show inconsistent results?
When I run df -h it shows that 95% has been used in /data4 and I am the only user under /data4.
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
overlay 591G 455G 136G 78% /
tmpfs ...
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BTRFS discrepancy between df and du
the difference between disk usage reported by df and du makes 20% of capacity of my drive. It is ubuntu-type btrfs filesystem with @ and @home. Where could be the problem please?
df -h /dev/sda2
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Excluding current folder when using du
I'm trying to read the size of the files in a folder using du -ah, but the output keeps showing me the current directory information( . ).
I was wondering if there's some flag I can use with du to ...
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