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How can I display the size of a directory and contents witin a directory

df only gives me the mounts
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How can I display the size of a directory and contents witin a directory

df only gives me the mounts
Try using du
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try this
du -hs directoryname

that will give you the total size of the directory
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Try "df -hl . " instead. Remember the '.' is the working directory you are in.
hl will gives you output in mb.
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