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I have here a macbook air and I'm wondering how can I check the size of some folders. I wanted to do so with du command but I cannot find it. Is it possible to somehow install it? Or is it possible to check the sizes of some folders with different command?
Thanks
Apparently, you are at the rescue mode on Mac. If you can mount your hard disk, you can use:
/Volumes/Macintosh\ HD/sbin/du
Also, if you can mount your hard disk, you can run the following command to access every command:
for path in echo /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD/{sbin,bin,usr/{sbin,bin}}; do PATH=$path:$PATH; done
No ducks for you. (du -chs tells you the size of a folder, including all files and subfolders).
You're not in OSX, you're in the installation environment, which sounds like it's limited. Recommend you back out and use the current environment to free up space.
it isn't at /usr/bin/du. However this can be due to fact that I'm in install mode of el capitan. I'm hang in process of installation, because I don't have enough space for installation.
Your best bet would be to boot into a Linux live CD like Finnix. From there you can run
du -hsx /* | sort -rn | head -10
to get the 10 largest files on the drive.
find. The other way is quota's, though thta is more focussed on disk space used per user rather than per folder. – Hennes Aug 9 '16 at 11:14duis at/usr/bin/duwhich should be in your default$PATH. – user4556274 Aug 9 '16 at 11:17