# Human readable output of disk usage

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**Category:** Administration\
**Created:** [August 3, 2015, 11:41am UTC](https://linux-tips.com/t/human-readable-output-of-disk-usage/134 "2015-08-03T11:41:39Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 3, 2015, 11:41am UTC](https://linux-tips.com/t/human-readable-output-of-disk-usage/134/1 "2015-08-03T11:41:39Z")

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You can use `-h` parameter to make `df`'s output human readable as:

```
df -h

```

`-h` parameter also used with `ls` to make `ls`’ outputs human readable:

```
ls -h
```