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Getting subdirectory sizes including "hidden" dot-directories
Getting subdirectory sizes including "hidden" dot-directories
Getting subdirectory sizes including "hidden" dot-directories
When investigating what eats up all that disc space the dot-directories like .cache
, .local
, .thunderbird
and the like usually evade a du
call.
Here's how to get those too, and sort the output by eaten space:
du -smc .[!.]* * |sort -n
Bonus hint: sort
understands -h
too:
du -smc .[!.]* * |sort -h
, multiple selections available,
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