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May 11, 2023 at 8:44 comment added Lou What is the difference between disk usage and size?
Jan 18, 2023 at 9:20 history edited Stéphane Chazelas CC BY-SA 4.0
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Jan 18, 2023 at 8:27 history edited Gilles Quénot CC BY-SA 4.0
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Nov 30, 2022 at 11:58 history edited Gilles Quénot CC BY-SA 4.0
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S Nov 30, 2022 at 11:52 history edited G-Man Says 'Reinstate Monica' CC BY-SA 4.0
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S Nov 30, 2022 at 11:52 history suggested Klesun CC BY-SA 4.0
Clarify the meaning of the `dir` command line option so that reader did not get wrong assumption that it is a keyword
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Jul 16, 2022 at 12:51 comment added Yuriy Petrovskiy -b parameter for output in bytes is not available in MacOS
Mar 23, 2021 at 12:01 comment added mazunki Is it correct to assume this will sum up all mounted partitions on any folder which is a subdirectory? Say you du -s /mount, will this give the total of all mounted files in said directory? What about sshfs mounts, in the same way?
Aug 27, 2020 at 18:00 comment added Joshua Pinter To get size of all directories, use du -sh *.
Aug 16, 2020 at 14:33 comment added Shayan I get a lot of cannot read directory, permission denied is it safe to use sudo du?
May 10, 2017 at 1:29 comment added Praneeth --all list all files and -h shows file size in human readable format du -h --all
Mar 17, 2016 at 21:47 comment added pcnate add -b to output in bytes
Mar 18, 2013 at 13:38 vote accept Rob Avery IV
Mar 13, 2013 at 16:18 history answered Gilles Quénot CC BY-SA 3.0