XK0-006 System Management Practice Question
An administrator wants to gather information about disk usage for a specific directory and its subdirectories. Which TWO commands can be used for this purpose? (Choose two.)
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du -sh /path
du -sh /path gives a summary of total disk usage. du -h /path shows disk usage for each subdirectory in human-readable format. df shows filesystem-level usage, not directory-level.
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du -sh /path
Why this is correct
Summarizes total disk usage of the directory.
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df -h /path
Why it's wrong here
df shows filesystem usage, not directory usage.
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ls -lh /path
Why it's wrong here
ls shows file sizes, not recursive disk usage.
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du -h /path
Why this is correct
Shows disk usage for each subdirectory.
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stat /path
Why it's wrong here
stat shows metadata, not disk usage of contents.
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