Wondering if there is any way/application to easily tell the size of
directories and any subdirectories. eg in Windows, Directory Opus, and
several other file managers will actually show the size of directories
in normal view ie if open at the root of a drive, can easily tell where
all the space is being used… Anything similar for Suse? A plugin for
Dolphin/Konqueror??
Thanks, John.
Tons of ways… browse to the directory and run the following command:
du -h ./
Or, if you’re into the GUI, I just right-click on a directory and go to
properties and it shows me the size of that directory and its contents
(recursively). I’m using Gnome but I am fairly sure KDE will show the
same information.
Good luck.
hornetster wrote:
> Wondering if there is any way/application to easily tell the size of
> directories and any subdirectories. eg in Windows, Directory Opus, and
> several other file managers will actually show the size of directories
> in normal view ie if open at the root of a drive, can easily tell where
> all the space is being used… Anything similar for Suse? A plugin for
> Dolphin/Konqueror??
> Thanks, John.
>
>
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Thanks for the reply. Yep, that is good for single directories, but what
I want to be able to do is “at a glance” list all the subdirectories in
the current directory and the TOTAL space it is taking up, preferably
all on a single page, either GUI or not. ie being able to go to the root
directory and quickly see if there is one subdirectory that is growing
out of proportion…
Thanks, John.
For the most part this works. If you have spaces in file/directory
names than you may get some errors, but I’m sure you can work around
those if needed:
ls -1drt *| xargs du -h --summarize
Good luck.
hornetster wrote:
> Thanks for the reply. Yep, that is good for single directories, but what
> I want to be able to do is “at a glance” list all the subdirectories in
> the current directory and the TOTAL space it is taking up, preferably
> all on a single page, either GUI or not. ie being able to go to the root
> directory and quickly see if there is one subdirectory that is growing
> out of proportion…
> Thanks, John.
>
>
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This will give you all the directories in the current directory, and a
total at the bottom. Play with the --max-depth to dig down further in
the structure and get more fine-grained results.
seems you are using KDE, you might try starting Konqueror then
highlighting the folder/directory you are needing information about in
the left panel then choose View/ViewMode/FileSizeView.
at first the quilted map that you get is hard to decipher, but if you
take a few minutes and figure out the concept, you can get a perspective
that is really hidden in normal view.