Get remote directory size via SFTP
SSHFS uses the SFTP subsystem. This is a FUSE-based solution, get familiar with security concerns. You can (and should) do the mounting as a normal user:
sshfs user@server:some/path /some/local/mountpoint/
Then use du -sh
locally. If the path of the directory you want is some/path/foo/directory
on the remote system, then you need to use /some/local/mountpoint/foo/directory
:
du -sh /some/local/mountpoint/foo/directory
To unmount:
fusermount -u /some/local/mountpoint/
Note: In the above example some/path
is a relative path, relative to whatever remote directory SFTP initially uses as ./
for you. The string ./
itself (or .
or an empty string) can be used to mount this exact directory. An absolute path can be used as well (e.g. /bar/baz/dir
).