Appendix 1: Common UNIX Commands

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du

The du command reports the disk usage for the specified directory. The value

reported for each sub directory and the total are given in 1024 byte blocks.

Example:

du /lib

1

/lib/modules/2.1/fs

1

/lib/modules/2.1/net

1

/lib/modules/2.1/scsi

1

/lib/modules/2.1/block

1

/lib/modules/2.1/cdrom

1

/lib/modules/2.1/ipv4

1

/lib/modules/2.1/misc

8

/lib/modules/2.1

77

/lib/modules/2.0.22/block

55

/lib/modules/2.0.22/net

133

/lib/modules/2.0.22/scsi

321

/lib/modules/2.0.22/fs

45

/lib/modules/2.0.22/misc

635

/lib/modules/2.0.22

80

/lib/modules/2.1.5/block

58

/lib/modules/2.1.5/net

139

/lib/modules/2.1.5/scsi

335

/lib/modules/2.1.5/fs

48

/lib/modules/2.1.5/misc

664

/lib/modules/2.1.5

477

/lib/modules/2.0.30/net

974

/lib/modules/2.0.30/scsi

265

/lib/modules/2.0.30/fs

245

/lib/modules/2.0.30/cdrom

228

/lib/modules/2.0.30/misc

2195

/lib/modules/2.0.30

3503

/lib/modules

5730

/lib

This declares /lib to contain 5730, 1k (1024 byte) blocks.