Hi,

I have always felt problems using commands to check disk usage, or I should say I might not be using the commands properly.

dfspace and free are 2 most frequent command that I use, but the data that it echoes is not comprehandable atleast to me.

I want something like windows when you are inside a directory and type the command it should tell you how much memory.

Can some one highlight how to use disk usage.

Appreciate you help!

du -hs /path/to/folder

If it is AIX (even though I just moved it from that forum as the question is fairly generic), then -h should be replaced with your preference of -k, -m or -g. And you could replace the directory name with . (dot) (current directory) if you are already in the directory.

THanks
du -k /path worked (du -hs /path did not)

Now the question is why 3 entries.

108 /some path
4 /some other path
82712 /Actual path

Actual path is the folder where i was looking for.

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Sorry I got it by myself.

Those other entries are the directories under my path.

Thanks for the help!

That's what the "s" was for