How to find total MB of a directory plus all subdirectories

Tue Mar 6 21:03:08 UTC 2007

On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 10:01:38PM +0100, Nigel Henry wrote:
> This is a silly question perhaps. I have my soundfiles in a directory named 
> Sounds Library, this contains many subdirectories, which contain the .wav 
> files.
> What command can I use to find out the disk space this directory is taking up, 
> including all the files that are in the subdirectories?

du -sh /your/directory


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