Windows directory size reporting

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Notify me of new comments via email. Notify me of new posts via email. Skip to content I was recently asked what tool would be best to report the number of items in, and the size of, every folder in a particular file share. Like this: Like Loading Thanks Darren Like Like. Hi Kevin, Great script. Is it possible to update a script to provide creation date and modified date? Leave a Reply Cancel reply Enter your comment here Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:.

Email required Address never made public. Name required. The actual size of the files add up to 1,MB or around 1GB. The character count of the directory path with spaces is only , with the files being an extra characters. To make things worse, most of the machines here have software actively running on them that monitors various health aspects of the system. One of these items is hard drive health, used as an attempt to measure the life expectancy of a drive to help clone and replace it before it might completely fail.

One of the machines affected by this bug had the software running, which was triggered into a critical error claiming that the drive is about to die. Which means this bug can not only cause confusion in Windows 10 users for example, some users report deleting the wrong folders when cleaning out their system because Windows reported the directory as empty or close to it, when it actually contained a large collection of sensitive information like family photos , but it can also confuse other applications and services that the user or an organization depends on for making important and potential costly choices.

Until then, hopefully, the character limit might work for you. Plus it breaks when there are lots of folders For example in the C: drive — Raunak Thomas. That's how ft Format-Table works. You can try fl instead Format-List — frizik. Steve Steve k 21 21 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. That's hardly "without any 3rd-party tool", I guess. Oh right, but it thought that family should not be considered '3rd party'.

I wholeheartedly agree though, that all the sysinternals tools should be included by default. Although for many uses PowerShell is a quite worthy replacement. Did someone say Powershell? I suggest you all to download whatever Mark Russinovich develops : I keep seeing this name whenever I find a tool saving my life.

Show 1 more comment. Custodio Custodio 7, 13 13 gold badges 77 77 silver badges bronze badges. You can use the following command du -h -d 1 folder sort -h if you want human readable size, one level of subdirectories only, and sort by size. Ryan Lee Ryan Lee 91 1 1 silver badge 1 1 bronze badge. Works for me. Useful if your on a headless server.

Simple and elegant! I like this one best, but isn't the set-location unnecessary? FullName , that way you come out the other side without the current directory changing underneath you.

Thanks BenderBoy. FullName directly. Just type in a command shell diskusage. You can increase depth of subfolders to analyze, for example: diskusage. Ro Yo Mi 14k 4 4 gold badges 32 32 silver badges 40 40 bronze badges. Alexander Anufriev Alexander Anufriev 1 1 silver badge 4 4 bronze badges.

New version released! Version 2. Please, make note that you are an author. From stackoverflow. Yes, I am author of github. This code is tested. You can check it again. Chienvela Chienvela 21 1 1 bronze badge. Thanks, it works for me with folders which smaller than 1GB, but for example, I have a folder of 3,,, bytes 3. Steve Steve 21 3 3 bronze badges.

Once you got du. The script will still get the sizes of subdirectories if you omit the Every parameter; the difference is in the number of output objects. The FormatNumbers parameter causes the script to output numbers as formatted strings with thousands separators, and the Total parameter outputs a final object after all other output that adds up the total number of files and directories for all output. The following image shows an example command that uses the FormatNumbers and Total parameters with US English thousands separators.

The script uses the following lines of code within the Begin script block to detect the current parameter set and whether input is coming from the pipeline:. Next, Get-DirStats. DirectoryInfo object. After validating that the directory exists in the file system, the script calls the Get-DirectoryStats function, which is really the workhorse function in the script. The Get-DirectoryStats function is basically a fancy version of the commands run in Figure 1. Here it is:. Drop this script into a directory in your path, and you can quickly find the sizes for directories in your file system.

Remember that it outputs objects, so you can add tasks such as sort and filter, for example:. The entire script can be downloaded from the Script Repository. Thank you, Bill, for writing an interesting and useful blog. Join me tomorrow for more Windows PowerShell cool stuff. I invite you to follow me on Twitter and Facebook.