I 'm running the du command on one of my websites directories and I'm getting 2 different result, I'm confused which one is accurate and why there is a big difference, here both command and the output.
du -hsc directory_name/
5.3G directory_name/
5.3G total
du -hsc directory_name/*
4.0K directory_name/announcements.php
4.0K directory_name/articles.php
1.2M directory_name/election2011
4.3M directory_name/error_log
78M directory_name/files
3.0G directory_name/php
3.1G total