Questions tagged [du]
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What is difference between ls -lh and du -sh?
$ ls -lh file1.tar
-rw-r--r-- 1 wnice wnice 40K Aug 6 20:41 file1.tar
$ du -sh file1.tar
80K file1.tar
Why is it showing different sizes of same file? Please help me understand
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Which folders are in /dev/sde3?
How to see which folders are in /dev/sde3 ?
df -h
/dev/sde3 39G 32G 4.8G 87% /
Doing:
cd /
sudo du -d 1 -h | sort -hr
Also shows me folders like:
/dev/sde4 ...
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Deleting empty while keeping non empty 4KB files in Ubuntu
I have a folder that contains hundreds of thousands of small .txt files of size 4kb. Some of them are totally empty while others are not. However, they all show the same size 4kb since this is the ...
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File size differs between ls and ncdu
I'm a little confused. With ls -laght a file with the size 1,0T is displayed:
-rw------- 1 nogroup 1,0T May 6 14:01 nextcloud-flat.vmdk
with ncdu only 9,1 GB:
/mnt/backup/backup/nextcloud/nextcloud-...
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Big file on ubuntu 16.04 virtual machine
When I execute sudo du -h --max-depth=1 I get this result:
The 13g are taking the whole space of the virtual machine but when I execute ls -la the files size total size is only 96k.
I'm not sure ...
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New to Ubuntu, question on usage of 'du' [duplicate]
I just installed Ubuntu under Windows Bash Shell for learning. My end goal is to use some tools like Lisp that are not easy to install/use on Windows.
Right now, I am trying to get the disk usage for ...
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Unable to free diskspace by removing files and not restarting the computer (hibernation possible)
I have a similar problem to the one mentioned here: Unable to free up space in df but I can not reboot (I have important data in the memory).
The output of df -h / is:
Filesystem Size Used ...
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How to filter du output?
So that it won't show directories that contain an empty file named "0k" that I use as a flag ? It seems --exclude can't deal with that.
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How can I check all used space on filesystem in linux?
I've already tried du-ch , df -h and df -h --total but it all result to their specific size of folder. Need to know how can I get the total used space in human readable form. Hoping for your help. ...
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Find the total space occupied by the ISO's on FS?
I want a awk script to find the sum $1 of the output of
sudo find / -type f -iname *.iso -print0 | xargs -0 du
Though it wouldn't be difficult to bring the output in human readable format but it ...
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du command - show file or folder in output?
If I run the command du -ah | sort -nr is it possible to make it show which line in the output is a file and which folder? Something like the command ls -l shows which is file and folder with d and - ...
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How do I refresh GT5 every X amount of seconds?
I'm using the terminal GUI program GT5, which is a "du -browser". I want to have this program either automatically refresh every 30 seconds, or run every 30 seconds, quit, then repeat. What is the ...
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Simple way to count disk usage after a certain date
I am looking for a simple way to count the used space in a directory (and sub-dirs) from a certain date onward.
This could be done by creating an exclude file with find and parsing this to du with an ...
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Real size of folder?
When I run du -hs Folder in the terminal I get: 118M
When I run du -s Folder in the terminal I get: 120664M
When I run du -h Folder in the terminal I get: 118m
When I find the size through the file ...
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Bash Script - How can I get the size of directories in .txt file and save them into other file?
I started a few weeks with Linux bash programming, but I'm struggling with a problem: How can I get the size of multiple directories (path saved on a .txt file) and then, write into another file, the ...
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How to get a full size of directory without listing the files/dir within?
I am able to get a size of a directory at the end of the du -h directoryname. But is there a way to get the size without it listing the files/directories within?
I'm currently doing it like this:
du ...
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keep same inodes metadata with rsync or ignore metadata with du
I'm trying to synchronize two folders from a remote computer.
I want to use rsync to send the folder, and du to check if the space used is identical on the remote computer.
The problem is even with a ...
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Intermittent - Error: No space left on device
Having intermittent issues when starting and stopping searches. I get a
Error: No space left on device
intermittently.
Have done some searches and most fixes are related to inodes, which you can ...
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Can somebody explain this changing `du` output?
Just tripped across a weird case of du. Putting arguments one way gives:
$ du -s htdocs/.git/ feuerkraft/.git/ media/.git/
40564 htdocs/.git/
40740 feuerkraft/.git/
204 media/.git/
Putting them ...
