Take the 2-minute tour ×  I would like to know if it's possible
to display the current folder size (in MB or GB) in Nautilus at
the status bar.  Here's a screenshot:   as you can see, (in this
case) I have 7 items, and I have 125.7 GB left. I would like to
display:  7 Items, Folder size: 412 MB, Free space: 125.7 GB  Is
it possible? If so how?  share|improve this question +1 that can
be very good information, too bad it's not possible (for now) – 
Book Of Zeus Feb 7 '12 at 0:21 @rcs20 - care to expand what you
mean by "out-of-date and require revision given recent changes"
? As far as I can see, 12.04 behaves the same as 11.10. – 
fossfreedom Mar 4 '12 at 18:31 Install baobab - a nice GUI app
listing choosen folders within their size. –  user67398 May 31
'12 at 9:16 disk usage analyzer will do it –  user155031 May 3
'13 at 3:16  6 Answers 6  up vote 10 down vote accepted  The
reason this information is not in the statusbar is probably
because it requires a lot of disk reading to find the disk usage
of a direc