Answer Detail: RE: Is ‘du’ a command? If so, what is its use?

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

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

December 12, 2005 06:19:58	#2
anil piplani	Member Since: Visitor Total Comments: N/A
RE: Is ‘du’ a command? If so, what is its use?
Thats right.. du gives you "disk used" and not free disk space. some of the options for du are : du -k : returns the disk usage in KBs du -k <directory name> : gives the disk usage by direcotry and all its sub-directories in KBs