Get Total size of hard drive in Linux without root permissions
Though there are different ways and different commands like du to find out the size of hard drives in Linux, sometimes without root permissions it's difficult to execute these commands…
How to determine available free space on Ubuntu
There are multiple ways to find available free space on Ubuntu. This can be done by either using df or du commands as shown below. The simplest command that can…
Sort all file sizes in a directory in Linux
We can use multiple commands like ls, du to sort all the files by size in a directory of Linux system. The trick here is to pass some additional arguments…
How to get the actual directory size using du?
There are different commands like du, find as well as different methods you can use to get actual directory size in a Linux/Unix system. But these commands have some advantages…
Disk space in tmp directory in Linux
We can use du command to check the space in tmp directory or any other directory in Linux by using some other additional parameters. The below commands can be used…
Partition used and available size
"df" command can be used to list the partition and also the free space that is available with each partition along with where it has been mounted. To see the…
Using du to count number of files in Linux
Though du is useful in counting the file and directory as well as seeing how much space is occupied by a directory in a Linux system. It can be also…
Total Disk usage for a particular user
There are different commands like du, quota or find that can be run to find disk usage for a particular user. But those commands needs to be executed with particular…
Directory size in CentOS
Directory size in CentOS or in any other linux system such as RHEL or Ubuntu can be found by using du (Disk usage command). "du" command not only lists the…
du only for Directories
As you know, "du" command (du for Disk Usage) can be used to get the list of directories along with other details. But the biggest problem is du would also…