How Do I See Disk Usage in a Directory in Linux?

df command – Shows the amount of disk space used and available on Linux file systems. du command – Display the amount of disk space used by the specified files and for each subdirectory. btrfs fi df /device/ – Show disk space usage information for a btrfs based mount point/file system.

How do I check disk usage per directory in Linux?

The df and du command line utilities are the two best tools we have to measure disk consumption on Linux. For checking disk usage by folder, the du command is particularly useful. When running du without any extra options, keep in mind that it will check the total disk usage of each subdirectory, individually.

How do I find the top 10 directory size in Linux?

Linux find largest file in directory recursively using find

1. Open the terminal application.
2. Login as root user using the sudo -i command.
3. Type du -a /dir/ | sort -n -r | head -n 20.
4. du will estimate file space usage.
5. sort will sort out the output of du command.
6. head will only show top 20 largest file in /dir/