Estimate disk usage for the current directory tree.
Section: Inventory and Capacity
Summarize current directory usage
bash
bash
du -sh .Explanation
Estimate disk usage for the current directory tree.
Learn the surrounding workflow
Compare similar commands or jump into common fixes when this command is part of a bigger troubleshooting path.
Related commands
Same sheet · prioritizing Inventory and Capacity
Show filesystem free space
Display used and available capacity in human-readable units.
Find largest top-level directories
Great first pass for finding where storage is going.
List block devices as a tree
Show disks, partitions, loop devices, and mountpoints.
Show filesystems with UUIDs
Display filesystem type, label, UUID, and mountpoint.
Select custom lsblk columns
Useful when you want clean inventory output for documentation or scripts.
Probe block devices for signatures
Read known filesystem, RAID, and partition metadata.