[ubuntu-in] size of folders

[Mir Nazim]

On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 11:16 PM, Pratul Kalia <pratulkalia at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 8:20 PM, Moz <listmoz at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Is there a command line or GUI utility in Ubuntu (I run Gutsy 7.10),
>> to display size of folders on a specific device? On $indows there is
>> something like TreeSize.
>
> You can use the 'du' command from a terminal.

YO! du rocks.

du -h show size in human readable format like 10M, 234K etc

du -s shows only the total(sumarize) size the folder not each folder.

or combined
  du -hs

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