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Du command

Du (short for disk usage) is a command used to find disk usage of files and directories. The du command provides results in multiple formats when used with various options.

Here are some examples:

1. Get the disk usage overview of all subdirectories under a directory $du / home

Du command

The output of this command displays all files and directories in / home, as well as the block size.

2. Display the file / directory size $du-h / home in human-readable format such as kb, mb, etc.

Du command

3. The total disk size of the directory $du-s / home

Du command

It is the total size of the / home directory

Df command

Df (short for disk filesystem) is used to display the disk utilization of the Linux system. LCTT translation note: df may be the abbreviation of disk free. )

Here are some examples.

1. Displays the device name, total number of blocks, total disk space, used disk space, available disk space, and mount points on the file system. $df

Df command

2. Information in human readable format $df-h

Df command

The above command displays information in a human-readable format.

3. Display the information of a specific partition $df-hT / etc

Df command

-hT plus the target directory will display the information of / etc in a readable format.

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