Original: CentOS7 / RHEL6, how to view the directory and subdirectories size
By powerful [du] command, you can help us quickly view the size of the directory, very practical.
du command to display a directory or file size of disk space occupied. Common combinations of options as: du -sh
[Du] commonly used options:
-h: display in human-readable way
-a: displays the disk space occupied by the directory, but also to show its directory and files take up disk space size
-s: Displays the directory disk space size, do not display the size of its disk space occupied by files and subdirectories
1. CentOS7 / RHEL6, look at the size of a single specified directory
For example: Check the size of your home directory, use the command du -sh / home
2. CentOS7 / RHEL6, look at the size of each subdirectory of a specified directory
For example: the size of each user directory See home directory, using the command du -h --max-depth = 1 / home.
NOTE: CentOS7 parameters may be parameters] [--max-depth parameter d] [replaced complete command du -h -d 1 / home