Type the command that reports the total disk space consumed by /var/log including everything beneath it, as one single human-readable figure.
LPIC-1 Exam 101-500, objective 104. Devices, Linux filesystems, filesystem hierarchy standard medium
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Answer
Type the answer.
Accepted answers
du -sh /var/logdu -hs /var/logdu -s -h /var/logdu -h -s /var/logdu --summarize --human-readable /var/logdu -sh /var/log/du -hs /var/log/
Case sensitive — Linux is, and grading LS as ls would teach a falsehood.
Why
du walks a directory tree and adds up the space its files occupy. -s summarises: print one total for each argument instead of a line per subdirectory. -h prints sizes with K, M and G suffixes. Contrast df, which asks the filesystem itself how many blocks are allocated — that is why df counts space held by deleted-but-still-open files while du cannot see it.
Where this comes from
- Cited
- LPI exam objective 104.2
- What it says
- Report disk usage with du and free space with df.
Practise this
Reading one question is not practice. The trainer will draw a set from objective 104 and space the ones you get wrong.