{"id":886,"date":"2013-08-18T12:46:17","date_gmt":"2013-08-18T12:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nooblet.org\/blog\/?p=886"},"modified":"2013-08-18T12:46:17","modified_gmt":"2013-08-18T12:46:17","slug":"quick-disk-usage-bash-script","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nooblet.org\/blog\/2013\/quick-disk-usage-bash-script\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick Disk Usage Bash Script"},"content":{"rendered":"

The command, du (estimate file space usage)<\/a> is a core Linux program I use often.<\/p>\n

When trying to find where space is being used on a disk I run the following command:<\/p>\n

du --max-depth=1 -xh<\/code><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This produces a list of all directories with their total size in human readable format. However it isn’t sorted, and it doesn’t tell me how much is being used in the current directory.<\/p>\n

So I wrote a script which lists the directory sizes in human readable format, sorts them by size, and also has a seperate entry for the current directory, along with total.<\/p>\n

Typical output:<\/p>\n

$ ddu
\n0K .\/proc
\n0K .\/run
\n0K .\/sys
\n4K [.]
\n4K .\/boot
\n4K .\/data
\n4K .\/dev
\n4K .\/lib64
\n4K .\/media
\n4K .\/mnt
\n4K .\/opt
\n4K .\/selinux
\n4K .\/tmp
\n12K .\/srv
\n32K .\/home
\n76K .\/root
\n5.5M .\/sbin
\n5.5M .\/bin
\n5.7M .\/etc
\n12M .\/lib
\n341M .\/var
\n761M .\/usr
\n--
\n1.1G [total]<\/code><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

 
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The command, du (estimate file space usage) is a core Linux program I use often. When trying to find where space is being used on a disk I run the following command: du –max-depth=1 -xh This produces a list of all directories with their total size in human readable format. However it isn’t sorted, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nooblet.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nooblet.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nooblet.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nooblet.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nooblet.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=886"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.nooblet.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":893,"href":"https:\/\/www.nooblet.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886\/revisions\/893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nooblet.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nooblet.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nooblet.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}