Questions tagged [du]
"du" is the Linux command for reporting Disk Usage
30
questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
3
votes
0
answers
961
views
Different used disk space with du and quota
If I run quota I get:
Disk quotas for user XXXXXX (uid xxxx):
Filesystem blocks quota limit grace files quota limit grace
/dev/md2 1119132* 1048576 2097152 none 6 0 ...
3
votes
0
answers
217
views
Explaination needed for strange `df` and `du` results
Can someone help me to understand the following output:
# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/xvda1 8.0G 7.5G 167M 98% /
udev 7.4G 8.0K 7.4G 1% /dev
...
- 31
2
votes
0
answers
327
views
du shows large space but inside directory it doesn't show the space
I've been trying to track down used space with du, and I'm seeing some odd behavior.
[root@server01 /]# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/xvda2 32G 32G 190M 100% /
...
2
votes
2
answers
941
views
How to show uncompressed total physical size in bytes of an HFS-compressed file or directory?
Case in point: Apple's TextEdit at /Applications/TextEdit.app
If you calculate the physical size with echo "$(/usr/bin/du -k -d 0 /Applications/TextEdit.app | /usr/bin/awk '{print $1}') * 1024" | /...
- 211
2
votes
1
answer
832
views
Different directory size between GUI and Command Line
I got this weird size problem using Gnome:
the size of Desktop directory is: 541.2 GB
(right click properties)
however when I run this command on a shell I get different size:
du -sh Desktop/
1.1T ...
- 21
2
votes
0
answers
424
views
Ubuntu Server shows that I am running out of disk space, but I can't figure out where it is being used
I am showing that I am running out of disk space and I am having trouble uploading, but I can't figure out where the disk space is being used. I am supposed to have 19 gigabytes, but it looks like ...
- 365
1
vote
2
answers
171
views
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 -...
1
vote
0
answers
2k
views
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
...
- 377
1
vote
1
answer
811
views
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 ...
- 131
1
vote
0
answers
88
views
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 --...
- 323
1
vote
0
answers
252
views
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 ...
- 171
1
vote
0
answers
216
views
"du" command on Windows10 under MSYS2 gives "fts_read failed" error on USB formatted as exFAT/FAT32
I'm currently using MSYS2 on Windows10 and I tried to execute du in the MINGW64 Shell Launcher on a USB formatted as exFAT.
Assuming the USB is mounted on /g/, the structure of the USB is pretty much ...
- 11
1
vote
0
answers
1k
views
Difference between du -sh */ and du -hd 1
I tried to find out how big each directory in my root-directory is.
I cd'ed to / and did:
ls | xargs du -sh
the result:
...
1.9M tmp
975M usr
70G var
...
Then I went to /var/www and did:
...
- 11
1
vote
0
answers
118
views
Summing selective du sizes output
I am trying to find out how much space is consumed in total by files exceeding 50M in size. I am able to generate a list of file sizes with the following command:
find $PWD/soccer -maxdepth 50 -type ...
- 1,468
1
vote
0
answers
724
views
MAC OS X 10.9.5 - strange result with du command
Looking for big files that I could delete in order to free up some space on my Mac (OS X 10.9.5), I came up with a big cache file: /System/Library/Caches/com.apple.coresymbolicationd/data . It was ...
