Estimate file space usage.
- Get a sum of the total size of a file/folder in human readable units:
du -sh {{file_or_directory}}
- List file sizes of a directory and any subdirectories in KB:
du -k {{file_or_directory}}
- List file sizes of a directory and any subdirectories in MB:
du -m {{file_or_directory}}
- Get recursively, individual file/folder sizes in human readable form:
du -ah {{directory}}
- List the KB sizes of directories for N levels below the specified directory:
du --max-depth=N