Du (disk usage) command

du (disk usage) Unix and Linux command used to display file space usage.

Examples

• du -sh *
• du -sh /path/to/file
• du -sh -- *

Related commands

• df (disk free)
• find: find . -ls 2>&1 | sort -rnk7 | more
• docker volume ls
• sar -F
• Node exporter exposes filesystem statistics, such as disk space used.

See also

• File system, du, df, find, ls, mkdir, touch, locate
• du, du -hs, Disk space usage, df, ls, tree, find, docker system df, journalctl --disk-usage, No space left on device, ENOSPC, sar -F, growpart, resize2fs, ncdu, duf, dua-cli
• sync