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Old 01-25-2008
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Quote:
Originally Posted by divz View Post
What i am looking for is to find out the size of all the directories under /data.
For the grand total use:
Code:
du -hs /data
If you need the size of each directory under data use find:
Code:
find /data -type d -exec du -hs {} \;