7.3 du - View the space used by files an Linux For Beginners

Table of Contents

1 What is Linux? (1)
2 Understanding files and folders (1)
3 Understanding users and permissions (1)
4 Who and what is root (1)
5 Opening a command shell / terminal (1)
6 Your first Linux commands (1)
6.1 ls - short for list (1)
6.2 pwd - print name of current/working (1)
6.3 cd - Change directory (1)
7 The basic commands (1)
7.1 chmod - Make a file executable (1)
7.2 df - view filesystem disk space usag (1)
7.3 du - View the space used by files an (1)
7.4 mkdir - makes folders (1)
7.5 passwd - changes your login passwor (1)
7.6 rm - delete files and folders (1)
7.7 ln - make symbolic links (1)
7.8 tar archiving utility - tar.bz2 and (1)
8 Thanks to (1)

du - View the space used by files and folders

Use du (Disk Usage) to view how much space files and folders occupy. Read the du manual page for flags and usage.

du is a part of fileutils.

Example du usage:

  du -sh Documents/
  409M    Documents

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du - View the space used by files and folders