{"id":257,"date":"2015-09-01T06:21:39","date_gmt":"2015-09-01T06:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/muse.oneshot.in\/?p=257"},"modified":"2015-09-01T06:22:09","modified_gmt":"2015-09-01T06:22:09","slug":"how-to-find-the-space-consumed-by-each-folders-in-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/muse.oneshot.in\/?p=257","title":{"rendered":"How to find the Space consumed by each folders in Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DU command can be used to find the space used in human readable format like GB and Mb<br \/>\nBelow is an example in my system showing size and corresponding folder names.<\/p>\n<p>[Janni@repoCram]$ du -h \/home\/acce\/temp<\/p>\n<p>3.6G    \/home\/accu\/temp\/cream\/Windows\/SEI\/SEI6xPatRel3patches<br \/>\n3.0G    \/home\/accu\/temp\/cream\/Windows\/SEI\/patches<br \/>\n7.4G    \/home\/accu\/temp\/cream\/Windows\/SEI\/SEI6xPatRel7patches<br \/>\n5.0G    \/home\/accu\/temp\/cream\/Windows\/SEI\/Oct2013<br \/>\n6.4G    \/home\/accu\/temp\/cream\/Windows\/SEI\/SEI6xPatRel7patches1<br \/>\n2.6M    \/home\/accu\/temp\/cream\/Windows\/SEI\/test\/SCM-bin<br \/>\n7.1G    \/home\/accu\/temp\/cream\/Windows\/SEI\/test<br \/>\n4.4G    \/home\/accu\/temp\/cream\/Windows\/SEI\/SEI6xPatRel4patches<br \/>\n5.0G    \/home\/accu\/temp\/cream\/Windows\/SEI\/Oct2013_old<br \/>\n2.6M    \/home\/accu\/temp\/cream\/Windows\/SEI\/latest\/bCM-bin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DU command can be used to find the space used in human readable format like GB and Mb Below is an example in my system showing size and corresponding folder names. [Janni@repoCram]$ du -h \/home\/acce\/temp 3.6G \/home\/accu\/temp\/cream\/Windows\/SEI\/SEI6xPatRel3patches 3.0G \/home\/accu\/temp\/cream\/Windows\/SEI\/patches 7.4G \/home\/accu\/temp\/cream\/Windows\/SEI\/SEI6xPatRel7patches 5.0G \/home\/accu\/temp\/cream\/Windows\/SEI\/Oct2013 6.4G \/home\/accu\/temp\/cream\/Windows\/SEI\/SEI6xPatRel7patches1 2.6M \/home\/accu\/temp\/cream\/Windows\/SEI\/test\/SCM-bin 7.1G \/home\/accu\/temp\/cream\/Windows\/SEI\/test 4.4G \/home\/accu\/temp\/cream\/Windows\/SEI\/SEI6xPatRel4patches 5.0G \/home\/accu\/temp\/cream\/Windows\/SEI\/Oct2013_old 2.6M \/home\/accu\/temp\/cream\/Windows\/SEI\/latest\/bCM-bin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,8,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-technology","category-linux","category-linux-commands","category-redhat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/muse.oneshot.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/muse.oneshot.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/muse.oneshot.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muse.oneshot.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muse.oneshot.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/muse.oneshot.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":258,"href":"https:\/\/muse.oneshot.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions\/258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/muse.oneshot.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muse.oneshot.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muse.oneshot.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}