unix quick question
 

ho do i see what is the size of an entire folder?

it sounds like you need a managed host..


du -s dirname

To make sure that the output is in kilobytes:

du -ks dirname

For megabytes type:

du -ms dirname

du -h folder works, too. -h is for "human readable"

du -h will list all file sizes in that dir, then at the end give you total of the original... kind of messy if you just want the total size.