I want to see how much total space /
is taking, but I don't know how to do that. I can use ls -hal
and add up the subtotals, or I can use fdisk
to tell me the size of that partition, but is there a better way?
What’s the best way to list size of / in Terminal
directoryfdiskls
Best Answer
Are you asking about the total size of files/directories contained within
/
, or the total size of the root filesystem?If the former, use
df -h /
.If the latter, you can do this with
du -sh /
, which will be very slow, as it has to enumerate every single file. Better, but possibly inaccurate due to things like bind mounts, filesystems stored as sparse files on other filesystems/etc: total up yourdf
output.