On Thursday,  5 December 2002 at 19:53:32 -0500, Sam Carleton wrote:
> Folks,
>
> 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.

To see how much space a directory takes up, use ls -ld:

  $ ls -ld /usr
  drwxr-xr-x  17 root  wheel  512 Oct 26 11:50 /usr

To see how much space its contents take up, use du -s:

  $ echo $BLOCKSIZE
  1048576
  $ du -s /usr
  3499    /usr

The value is in units of BLOCKSIZE bytes.  If BLOCKSIZE isn't set, it
defaults to 512.

Greg
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