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Check dir size howto

Jan 4, 2010 Other, Tips & Tricks

It is useful to know how to check the size of a folder. All you need to do is to run next command:

# du -hs /dir/location/

For example:

[root@myserver /]# du -hs /mail/mydomain.com/
837M    /mail/mydomain.com/

In this case, the size is shown in MBs.

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One Response to “Check dir size howto”

  1. Goody Says:

    January 4th, 2010 at 02:22

    Nice trick… Thanks man…


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