Du (disk usage) command

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

Examples

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

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

• FHS, /proc/, /proc/net/, /boot/, /run/, /dev/, /usr/, /var/run/, /etc/, /var/, /var/lib/ /var/log/, /var/www/, /opt/, /lib/, /sys/, /proc/kcore, /proc/sys/, /proc/sys/vm/, /snap/, /mnt/, /mnt/data, /var/opt/, /usr/bin/, /lib/, /proc/$PID/, /proc/self/
• 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