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Question:  Is ‘du’ a command? If so, what is its use?

Answer:
Yes, it stands for ‘disk usage’. With the help of this command you can find the disk capacity and free space of the disk.


November 11, 2005 08:13:23 #1
 Ramakrishna Choudarapu   Member Since: November 2005    Total Comments: 2 

RE: Is ‘du’ a command? If so, what is its use?
 
"du" reports the disk usage by each sub-dir under the current directory. "du" *does not* show the free disk space. Use "df" for this.
     

 

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