{"id":413,"date":"2018-01-10T11:09:09","date_gmt":"2018-01-10T11:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hyderabadwebhosting.in\/blog\/?p=413"},"modified":"2018-02-13T02:21:38","modified_gmt":"2018-02-13T02:21:38","slug":"7-useful-du-commads-check-disk-usage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hyderabadwebhosting.in\/blog\/7-useful-du-commads-check-disk-usage\/","title":{"rendered":"7 useful du commads to check the disk usage"},"content":{"rendered":"

7 useful du commads to check the disk usage<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Linux \u201cdu\u201d (Disk Usage) is a standard Unix\/Linux command, used to check the information of disk usage of files and directories on a machine. The du command has many parameter options that can be used to get the results in many formats. The du command also displays the files and directory sizes in a recursively manner.<\/span><\/p>\n

Here, we will discuss about the 7 useful du commands<\/span><\/p>\n

1. To find out the disk usage summary of a \/home\/directoryname directory tree and each of its sub directories. Enter the command as:<\/span><\/p>\n

du \/home\/directoryname<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

2. Using \u201c-h\u201d option with \u201cdu\u201d command provides results in \u201cHuman Readable Format\u201c. Means you can see sizes in Bytes, Kilobytes, Megabytes, Gigabytes etc.<\/span><\/p>\n

du -h \/directoryname<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

3. To get the summary of a grand total disk usage size of an directory use the option \u201c-s\u201d as follows.<\/span><\/p>\n

du -sh \/directoryname<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

4. Using \u201c-a\u201d flag with \u201cdu\u201d command displays the disk usage of all the files and directories.<\/span><\/p>\n

du -a \/directoryname<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

5. Using \u201c-a\u201d flag along with \u201c-h\u201d displays disk usage of all files and folders in human readeable format.<\/span><\/p>\n

du -ah \/directoryname<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

6. To get the summary of disk usage of directory tree along with its subtrees in Megabytes (MB) only by using this option “-mh”<\/span><\/p>\n

du -mh \/directoryname<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

7. The \u201c-c\u201d flag provides a grand total usage disk space at the last line<\/span><\/p>\n

du -c \/directoryname<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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7 useful du commads to check the disk usage The Linux \u201cdu\u201d (Disk Usage) is a standard Unix\/Linux command, used to check the information of disk usage of files and directories on a machine. The du command has many parameter options that can be used to get the results in many formats. The du command\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":384,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hyderabadwebhosting.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hyderabadwebhosting.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hyderabadwebhosting.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hyderabadwebhosting.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hyderabadwebhosting.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hyderabadwebhosting.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":414,"href":"https:\/\/hyderabadwebhosting.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions\/414"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hyderabadwebhosting.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hyderabadwebhosting.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hyderabadwebhosting.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hyderabadwebhosting.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}