{"id":356,"date":"2013-08-28T18:13:26","date_gmt":"2013-08-29T01:13:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/10kdev.ivystreetinc.com\/?p=356"},"modified":"2013-08-29T09:04:25","modified_gmt":"2013-08-29T16:04:25","slug":"linux-tip-list-directories-by-size-du","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/10kdev.net\/?p=356","title":{"rendered":"Linux Tip: List Directories by Size – du"},"content":{"rendered":"

Use the du comand to list your directories by size:<\/p>\n

user@ubuntu:\/boot$ du -hs *
\n632K abi-2.6.32-21-generic
\n120K config-2.6.32-21-generic
\n1.5M grub
\n7.7M initrd.img-2.6.32-21-generic
\n164K memtest86+.bin
\n1.7M System.map-2.6.32-21-generic
\n4.0K vmcoreinfo-2.6.32-21-generic
\n3.9M vmlinuz-2.6.32-21-generic
\n<\/code><\/p>\n

In this, ‘grub’ is a directory in the location. This command has a lot of options but usually I am just interested in this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Use the du comand to list your directories by size: user@ubuntu:\/boot$ du -hs * 632K abi-2.6.32-21-generic 120K config-2.6.32-21-generic 1.5M grub 7.7M initrd.img-2.6.32-21-generic 164K memtest86+.bin 1.7M System.map-2.6.32-21-generic 4.0K vmcoreinfo-2.6.32-21-generic 3.9M vmlinuz-2.6.32-21-generic In this, ‘grub’ is a directory in the location. This command has a lot of options but usually I am just interested in this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/10kdev.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/10kdev.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/10kdev.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/10kdev.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/10kdev.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=356"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/10kdev.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":771,"href":"http:\/\/10kdev.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356\/revisions\/771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/10kdev.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/10kdev.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/10kdev.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}