Ever needed to check which folders on your server are using up your disk space? Here's a few commands that you can execute to get that information.

his would give you your entire partition usage per fstab

To calculate the directory size of the current directory you're in, execute: You can show the sizes of the subdirectories (only first level) within the directory you are in by executing: To calculate the directory sizes of the first level of subdirectories in any folder, you could execute: And to show the size of any directory you would execute:

Right, now take note it could take a little while to calculate if you're trying to calculate gigabytes as gigabytes normally means lots of folders and files.