On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 07:53:32PM -0500, Sam Carleton wrote:
> I am sure there is an easy way to do this, I simply don't know what
> it is...  How do I find out how much disk space a directory and
> it's contents are taking up?  I know about df to check volumes.

du will show you the disk usage for a directory with subtotals for
each subdirectory. du -s if you just want a summary and don't need to
see the subtotals.
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