Questions tagged [du]
"du" is the Linux command for reporting Disk Usage
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du command not counting some subdirectories
Calling:
sudo du -sh /var
returns:
0B /var
but calling:
sudo du -sh /var/log
returns:
613M /var/log
Why is du not counting subdirectory despite sudo?
Also some items gave Operation not permitted ...
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How can I find out the capacity of the nfs mounted directory on the disk?
I cloud not find files filling the disk. df -h command print out / part usage %86 ( capacity is 15G ) but du -sh / command print out 3G.
I am using nfs share on my system. the nfs mounted to /mnt. i ...
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Why do du -s * and du -s . show vastly different sizes?
I ran both du -sh . and du -sh * inside a directory, but the values returned by the second one don't add up to nearly the same value reported by the first. 5.7GB vs 1.5 GB. Why is this? Are there some ...
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du -h returns 512, what does it mean?
I have some files for which du -h returns 512, my understanding it is supposed to return numbers with units. What does it mean ? What is the actual disk space being used ?
good file
(base) -bash-4.2$ ...
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Where is `shared-du` (`reflink-tools`)?
The OCFS2 manual page describing reflink snapshots describes a tool named shared-du, together with examples.
However I'm unable to locate that tool on the web.
Where can I find it?
Citing from the ...
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How to fix du tab alignment?
I'd like to get the du output in neat columns.
This is what I get:
du -sh * | sort -hr
----
48M app
11M lib
6.7M image.jpg
1.1M image2.jpg
488K code.c
488K code.py
72K doc.txt
16K notes....
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Is it safe to delete contents of /root/.cache folder to free up space?
I need to free up disk space on my linux server.
I run the df command to check space ad see that I'm using up 100% of disk space.
myserver:/ # df /
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% ...
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How to check the directory size using find command?
I would like to list the directories which is having size more than 10MB. I tried the same using find command but find command is not giving result with size and type option. It is working with any of ...
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Why `du` output / subdirectory size on disk changes after creating a file in parent directory?
╼ pwd
/some/dir
╼ ls
╼ some_script.py --create centos-chroot
╼ ls
centos-chroot
╼ du --block-size=1 -s centos-chroot
6320181248
╼ fallocate -l 36613854208 largefile
╼ ls
centos-chroot largefile
╼ du --...
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How to count total size of directory, and why `du` output differs between copies of directory?
Because I am clearly missing something here:
$ cp -a CENTOS-chroot 1
$ cp -a CENTOS-chroot 2
$ cp -a CENTOS-chroot 3
$ cp -a CENTOS-chroot 4
$ du --block-size=1 -s 1 2 3 4
6320304128 1
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How to calculate exact size of partition and number of inodes to write a directory
I need to write a directory with files (specifically - a Linux chroot) to a file with LVM image on it. The background of task is stupid, but I want to understand what is going on for now.
I calculate ...
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How can I get the output of `du -c` without the word `total`?
I want to get the total size of a directory and all directories inside it.
I am using the command
du -h -c "$input_variable" | grep total
It prints the results and the word total. How do I get the ...
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How to view the disk use of a directory ignoring hard links in macOS
Using
du -d 0
you can see the disk usage of the directory you're currently in. Hard links are counted as well.
I'm looking for the command that does this, but does not count the size of the hard ...
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Get the total size of all files of a given extension
I'm trying to get the total size of all the JPEGs in a particular folder, but no amount of combinations of options while piping to du seems to make this work:
find -type f -iname "*.jpg" | du -sch
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Can I give a script elevated file access and run it from my current user?
I have a script (I call it dusort.sh) I use to gauge which files are taking up the most space on my drive in a given folder. It essentially boils down to this:
#!/bin/bash
du --all --human-readable -...
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