size of current directory 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: show directory size linux

du -sh /home/george
2.1G    /home/george

Example 3: how to get the size of directory in linux

du -sh /var

Example 4: linux how to see directory data usage

du -hs * | sort -rh

Example 5: command to check size of folder in linux

du -lh --max-depth=1 --block-size=M | sort -nr