du
by gregs on Aug.23, 2005, under Uncategorized
I stumbled across the following command while reading this article:
du --max-depth=1 --human-readable --total
This gives you an estimated indication of your file space usage by folder. Here is some sample output:
12K ./lost+found
2.5M ./bin
84K ./dev
3.3M ./etc
187M ./home
7.6M ./lib
1.0K ./mnt
1.0K ./opt
65M ./proc
65K ./root
2.3M ./sbin
3.0K ./tmp
There are plenty of other useful scripts and tidbits in the article.
