finding disk space usage

cvera8 · May 18, 2005, 11:21am

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

For example, /u1/cvera => 530 MB

Thanks =)

reborg · May 18, 2005, 3:18pm

du -h /some/dir | tail -1

or if that doesn't work

du -k /some/dir | tail -1

Ygor · May 18, 2005, 11:54pm

du -sk /some/dir

cvera8 · May 19, 2005, 9:12am

both command options [du -k] AND [du -sk] worked great. The [du -h] option was an unrecognized commandline option. Thanks very much.