Linux viewing disk usage

DU/DF enables you to view disk usage

DU

By searching for files to calculate the size of each file and then add it up, the files du can see are only some existing files that have not been deleted. The size he calculated is the sum of all the file sizes that he currently thinks exist.

Usage: du [option]... [file]...
 //Or: du [options]... -- files0 from = f
Summarize disk usage of the set of FILEs, recursively for directories.

//Required parameters apply to both long and short options.
  -0, --null            end each output line with NUL, not newline
  -a, --all             write counts for all files, not just directories
      --apparent-size   print apparent sizes, rather than disk usage; although
                          the apparent size is usually smaller, it may be
                          larger due to holes in ('sparse') files, internal
                          fragmentation, indirect blocks, and the like
  -B, --block-size=SIZE  scale sizes by SIZE before printing them; e.g.,
                           '-BM' prints sizes in units of 1,048,576 bytes;
                           see SIZE format below
  -b, --bytes           equivalent to '--apparent-size --block-size=1'
  -c, --total           produce a grand total
  -D, --dereference-args  dereference only symlinks that are listed on the
                          command line
  -d, --max-depth=N     print the total for a directory (or file, with --all)
                          only if it is N or fewer levels below the command
                          line argument;  --max-depth=0 is the same as
                          --summarize
      --files0-from=F   summarize disk usage of the
                          NUL-terminated file names specified in file F;
                          if F is -, then read names from standard input
  -H                    equivalent to --dereference-args (-D)
  -h, --human-readable  print sizes in human readable format (e.g., 1K 234M 2G)
      --inodes          list inode usage information instead of block usage
  -k                    like --block-size=1K
  -L, --dereference     dereference all symbolic links
  -l, --count-links     count sizes many times if hard linked
  -m                    like --block-size=1M
  -P, --no-dereference  don't follow any symbolic links (this is the default)
  -S, --separate-dirs   for directories do not include size of subdirectories
      --si              like -h, but use powers of 1000 not 1024
  -s, --summarize       display only a total for each argument
  -t, --threshold=SIZE  exclude entries smaller than SIZE if positive,
                          or entries greater than SIZE if negative
      --time            show time of the last modification of any file in the
                          directory, or any of its subdirectories
      --time=WORD       show time as WORD instead of modification time:
                          atime, access, use, ctime or status
      --time-style=STYLE  show times using STYLE, which can be:
                            full-iso, long-iso, iso, or +FORMAT;
                            FORMAT is interpreted like in 'date'
  -X, --exclude-from=FILE  exclude files that match any pattern in FILE
      --exclude=PATTERN    exclude files that match PATTERN
  -x, --one-file-system    skip directories on different file systems
      --help		Display this help message and exit
      --version		Display version information and exit

//The displayed values are from -- block size, Du block size, block size 
//And the first available SIZE unit in the BLOCKSIZE environment variable.
//Otherwise, the default unit is 1024 bytes (or 512, if posixly'u correct is set).

The SIZE argument is an integer and optional unit (example: 10K is 10*1024).
Units are K,M,G,T,P,E,Z,Y (powers of 1024) or KB,MB,... (powers of 1000).

GNU coreutils online help: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
//Please report the translation error of du to < http://translationproject.org/team/zh CN. HTML >
Full documentation at: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/du>
or available locally via: info '(coreutils) du invocation'

DF

Get the information of space size quickly through the file system. When we delete a file, the file does not It disappears in the file system immediately, but temporarily. When all programs are not used, it will be released according to the OS rules For the deleted files, df records the size of the files obtained through the file system. What is better than du is that df can see the deleted files When calculating the size of the file, the space of this part is added, which is more accurate.

Usage: df [option]... [file]...
Show information about the file system on which each FILE resides,
or all file systems by default.

//Required parameters apply to both long and short options.
  -a, --all             include pseudo, duplicate, inaccessible file systems
  -B, --block-size=SIZE  scale sizes by SIZE before printing them; e.g.,
                           '-BM' prints sizes in units of 1,048,576 bytes;
                           see SIZE format below
  -h, --human-readable  print sizes in powers of 1024 (e.g., 1023M)
  -H, --si              print sizes in powers of 1000 (e.g., 1.1G)
  -i, --inodes		display inode Information not block usage
  -k			Namely--block-size=1K
  -l, --local		Show only native file systems
      --no-sync		Do not synchronize before getting usage data(default)
      --output[=FIELD_LIST]  use the output format defined by FIELD_LIST,
                               or print all fields if FIELD_LIST is omitted.
  -P, --portability     use the POSIX output format
      --sync            invoke sync before getting usage info
      --total           elide all entries insignificant to available space,
                          and produce a grand total
  -t, --type=TYPE       limit listing to file systems of type TYPE
  -T, --print-type      print file system type
  -x, --exclude-type=TYPE   limit listing to file systems not of type TYPE
  -v                    (ignored)
      --help		Display this help message and exit
      --version		Display version information and exit

//The displayed values are from -- block size, DF block size, block size 
//And the first available SIZE unit in the BLOCKSIZE environment variable.
//Otherwise, the default unit is 1024 bytes (or 512, if posixly'u correct is set).

The SIZE argument is an integer and optional unit (example: 10K is 10*1024).
Units are K,M,G,T,P,E,Z,Y (powers of 1024) or KB,MB,... (powers of 1000).

FIELD_LIST is a comma-separated list of columns to be included.  Valid
field names are: 'source', 'fstype', 'itotal', 'iused', 'iavail', 'ipcent',
'size', 'used', 'avail', 'pcent', 'file' and 'target' (see info page).

GNU coreutils online help: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
//Please report the translation error of df to < http://translationproject.org/team/zh CN. HTML >
Full documentation at: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/df>
or available locally via: info '(coreutils) df invocation'

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Added by BZero on Tue, 03 Dec 2019 16:57:18 +0200