On my way to the airport in Calgary on Sunday, I drove past a billboard for Q9 Networks that said:

Our data center client lists reads like a who’s who of Calgary businesses. Are you in it?

Marketing like this has always bothered me. It makes me want to flip the bird in their general direction, because climbing past the drivel it reads like this:

If you’re not hosting in our data center your company sucks.

Peer pressure for the enterprise. I thought we got past that in tenth grade?

Note to Q9 (this one’s free): Hire better marketing people.

$ du -sh

For example, on my MacBook Pro when I execute this command in my home directory, I get something like so:

danbookpro:~ daniel$ du -sh
 53G    .

Very good then. Carry on.

Update

If you’re looking for a real good time, give this a try (thanks Nick):

du -chs ~/*

This will give you a list of each file/directory and the amount of disk space used by each. In my case something like this:

danbookpro:~ daniel$ du -chs ~/*
 58M    /Users/daniel/Bin
853M    /Users/daniel/Desktop
1.3G    /Users/daniel/Documents
1.1M    /Users/daniel/Droplets
 10G    /Users/daniel/Library
 25M    /Users/daniel/Movies
7.2G    /Users/daniel/Music
 26G    /Users/daniel/Pictures
1.5G    /Users/daniel/Public
112K    /Users/daniel/Sites
6.2G    /Users/daniel/Work
 53G    total
danbookpro:~ daniel$