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Old 05-18-2005
finding disk space usage

How would I go about finding the about of disk space occupied by a certain directory?

For example, /u1/cvera => 530 MB

Thanks =)
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Old 05-18-2005
du -h /some/dir | tail -1

or if that doesn't work

du -k /some/dir | tail -1
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Old 05-19-2005
du -sk /some/dir
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Old 05-19-2005
both command options [du -k] AND [du -sk] worked great. The [du -h] option was an unrecognized commandline option. Thanks very much. Smilie
 
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