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taraj

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Text mode folder space used information
« on: March 15, 2004, 06:40:05 PM »
How to know in text mode that how much space a specific folder is using. In gui we can find this on right-click on folder and then properties.
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Text mode folder space used information
« Reply #1 on: March 16, 2004, 10:50:24 AM »
for this there is a comand called du (ie disk usage).
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Text mode folder space used information
« Reply #2 on: March 16, 2004, 08:12:31 PM »
Specifically: du -sh
's' to keep a bunch of text from covering screen, h for size in Kb/Mb/Gb instead of bytes.
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