If you want to check the total disk space used by a particular directory, use the -s flag.

To display the grand total of directories, add -c flag with du -sh command.

To display only the grand total of the given directory including all the sub-directories, use ‘grep’ command with ‘du’ command like below.

How can I see the size of a folder?

To see a folder size, you need to right-click it and select “Properties” menu item, it seems no problem. But if you want to see the size of 100 folders, you need to click 200 times.

How can I tell which files are taking up space Linux?

Find Largest Directories in Linux

• du command: Estimate file space usage.
• a : Displays all files and folders.
• sort command : Sort lines of text files.
• -n : Compare according to string numerical value.
• -r : Reverse the result of comparisons.
• head : Output the first part of files.
• -n : Print the first ‘n’ lines.