Windows does not have any in-built command(Like the Linux command du) which show the disk usage statistics for a directory. However, there’s a downloadable tools from SysInternals(now part of Microsoft) which can show us the disk usage numbers.
Du.exe version 1.4 can be downloaded from the below link.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896651
Find the disk usage of a directory
Command for finding the size of a directory is:
du directory
Example:
To find the size of the folder C:\Windows, the command would be:
C:\>du.exe c:\windows Du v1.34 - report directory disk usage Copyright (C) 2005-2009 Mark Russinovich Sysinternals - www.sysinternals.com Files: 67482 Directories: 14198 Size: 14,602,213,939 bytes Size on disk: 14,597,516,679 bytes
Find the disk usage of a drive
Using du command we can find the current disk usage of a disk drive also.
Example:
C:\>du.exe c:\ Du v1.34 - report directory disk usage Copyright (C) 2005-2009 Mark Russinovich Sysinternals - www.sysinternals.com Files: 169591 Directories: 33839 Size: 101,282,363,438 bytes Size on disk: 101,274,488,768 bytes
great tool, i like the software create by Windows Sysinternals
native at least w7:
wmic logicaldisk get size,freespace,caption
Thanks!
Is there a way to use disk usage on a remote system to get the size of a user profile?
When I us the command locally I get the correct profile size.
However when I try to get the profile size of a emote system using the syntax below the file size du.exe shows is no where the actual file size.
\\IP address or PC name\c$\share\Directory Name
The actual directory size was 4 GB and du.exe showed the directory size as 30856040 Bytes which is about .028 GB.
That is a big difference.
Hi
Instructions on running / installing the app would be appreciated. I select ‘Run as Administrator’ . A command window flashed on screen, then nothing.
App is not installed.
Thanks
@Donna: you need to open command line (cmd) and use du.exe in there. This is console tool, no gui here.
Hope that helps :)
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