How to Get the Size of a Directory in Linux
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The du command displays the amount of file space used by the specified files or directories.
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When listing the contents of a directory using the ls command, you may have noticed that the size of the directories is almost always 4096 bytes (4 KB). That’s the size of space on the disk that is used to store the meta information for the directory, not what it contains.
The command you’ll want to use to get the actual size of a directory is du which is short for “disk usage”. We’ll show you how to use this command.
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