How to list folders with disk usage totals

Re: Show Folders with total disk space used

When finding out where your web space is being used it is useful to be able to list your directories and folders showing total usage for each folder, this allows you to further drill down by concentrating on folders that contain the most usage.

You can perform this task using the du (disk usage) utility:

# du -h --max-depth=1

The output will be in the format as follows:

98M ./wp-content
4.0K ./plesk-stat
4.0K ./picture_library
20K ./css
128K ./test
5.7M ./wp-includes
3.8M ./wp-admin
8.0K ./blogs
144K ./img
4.0K ./tmp
124K ./var
108M .

The -h option shows the usage in human readable form. The –max-depth option ensures we summarise folders in the current directory and not the individual sizes of sub folders.

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