On Fri, 04 Aug 2000,  Renaud OLGIATI wrote about,  Re: new drive - partitions & sizes?:
> As an aside to this thread, is there a simple way to find the size of a
> given branch of the file-tree ?
> 
> Or in other words, to find how big is /someting/other  including all the
> subdirectories ?

du -m /something/other

-m = megabytes
-b = bytes
man du for more details.

> 
> TIA,
> 
> Ron the Frog, on the banks of the Paraguay River.

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Regards Richard
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