Display Total Disk Size $$ fdisk -l | grep Disk Displays Size of Folder sorted according to size $$ sudo du -sh .[!.]* *| sort -nr (Including Subdirectories) $$ sudo du -sh * | sort -nr (Excluding Subdirectories) Displays the total size of the current directory including all the subdirectories. $$ du -ch | grep total Sum of directories (-s) in kilobytes (-k): $$ du -sk * 152304 directoryOne 1856548 directoryTwo Sum of directories (-s) in human-readable format (-h : Byte, Kilobyte, Megabyte, Gigabyte, Terabyte and Petabyte): $$ du -sh * 149M directoryOne 1.8G directoryTwo Disk usage of all subdirectories and files including hidden files within the current directory (sorted by filesize) : $$ du -sk .[!.]* *| sort -n Disk usage of all subdirectories and files including hidden files within the current directory (sorted by reverse filesize) : $$ du -sk .[!.]* *| sort -nr