使用python，终端命令（ubuntu）和文件夹属性的不同大小的文件夹

Question

I want to get the size of a folder I'm working on and I've tried the following:

• right-click and check folder's properties (105.8MB)

• Commands directly in terminal:

  • du -hsc * (last line where total appears 105MB)
  • du -sch (last line where total appears 418MB)

• method from this answer: Calculating a directory size using Python? (418MB)

Why am I getting such different sizes?

Answer 1

du -sch * will ignore hidden directories, so you'll usually get a smaller size with the asterisk than just running du -sch . That's really the only difference between all your examples above.

If you just need this value for displaying to a user, then choose which of those you'd like to display.

If you need an exact size, the du command is probably not what you want, since it displays disk usage , which will be different than file size if the disk block is greater than 1 byte.