Viewing Disk Partitions and Directory Sizes

bonzo — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 23:51:06 GMT

Hi Everyone,

I came across a few commands I found very useful: du, df, and cat

The first displays how much memory a directory uses. This is helpful, for example, if you want to know the size the root file system you just built with LTIB.

Example: So you want to find out how much space is use in /etc

du -h /etc

You may get a very long listing--all files and sub-directories. But the last line gives you the grand total. The -h means "human readable".

To get a quicker look (and avoid a large print out), you can look at just the last 10 lines of the listing (the "tail") this way:

du -h /etc | tail

Or to see just the last line:

du -h /etc | tail -n 1

You can find out more by typing:

man du

This is a useful for looking at how much disk storage is available. This includes how much memory is available on the removable disk such as MMC.

df -h

Listing disk partitions

There are several ways to do this. The quickest I've found is to type:

cat /proc/partitions

Besides listing the partitions, it tells you which drives and files are mounted. Useful if you want to check if the MMC card is connected.

Again, the -h stands for "human readable"

You can find out more by typing

man df

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