du -sh /home/george<br /> 2.1G /home/george<br />

# show all folder size in the current directory<br /> du -h –max-depth=1

du -sh folder

du -sh — *

#This shows you the folder size in human readable format</p> <p>sudo du -sh /folder

du -sh *<br /> du -sh /directory<br /> du -shx /directory<br />

du -sh folder/

#and this shows all sizes in that directory/folder<br /> ls -lsh

df -h .; du -sh — * | sort -hr</p> <p>#Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on<br /> #/dev/sdb2 206G 167G 29G 86% /<br /> #115M node_modules<br /> #2.1M examples<br /> #68K src<br /> #4.0K webpack.config.js<br /> #4.0K README.md<br /> #4.0K package.json

du -sh /* | sort -h