du (disk usage) command

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

Examples

• du
• du -hs
• du -hs *
• du -hs * 2>/dev/null
• du -hs -- * 2>/dev/null
• du -hs -- /path/to/your/dir/*
• du -hs /path/to/file
• du -hs /path/to/directory
• du -hs /var/lib/* | sort --human-numeric-sort -rk1

• du -h --apparent-size /path/to/file_or_directory
• du -hs --apparent-size

• Hidden folders:
  • zsh & Bash: du -hs $(ls -A) 2>/dev/null | sort -h
  • Bash: du -hs .[!.]* * 2>/dev/null
  • fish: du -hs (ls -A) 2>/dev/null | sort -h

du -hs /var/cache/apt/archives/
du -hs /var/log/
du -hs /var/lib/snapd/cache/
du -hs /var/lib/snapd/snaps/
du -hs /var/lib/apt/lists/

macOS disk usage:

du -hs /Users/*/brew/
sudo du -hs /Users/* 2>/dev/null

Related terms

• Disk space usage
• No space left on device
• ncdu
• df (disk free) to show file system disk space
• find . -ls 2>&1 | sort -rnk7 | more
• docker volume ls
• sar -F
• Node exporter (Prometheus) and Zabbix agent exposes filesystem statistics, such as disk space used.
• sync
• rclone size
• SELECT pg_database_size('your_db_name');
• \du (PostgreSQL) for listing users
• gsutil du
• aws s3 ls s3://your-bucket --recursive --human-readable --summarize
• docker buildx du
• docker buildx du --verbose
• Memory usage: sar -r --human
• Hidden folders

Activities

• chgrp, chmod, chown, chcon, du, rm performance information

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, macOS disk space
• ls, find, tree, mc, attr, xattr, chmod, rclone lsd, lsdir, ls -1, ls -A