size of a folder in linux code example
Example 1: how to check folder size in linux
# show all folder size in the current directory
du -h --max-depth=1
Example 2: command to check size of folder in linux
du -lh --max-depth=1 --block-size=M | sort -nr
Example 3: how to get the size of directory in linux
du -sh /var
Example 4: check directory size
du -sh /home/george