diff --git a/libpod/container_internal.go b/libpod/container_internal.go
index 5ffe18c46e..38295271e8 100644
--- a/libpod/container_internal.go
+++ b/libpod/container_internal.go
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ import (
 	cutil "go.podman.io/common/pkg/util"
 	"go.podman.io/storage"
 	"go.podman.io/storage/pkg/chrootarchive"
+	"go.podman.io/storage/pkg/directory"
 	"go.podman.io/storage/pkg/fileutils"
 	"go.podman.io/storage/pkg/idmap"
 	"go.podman.io/storage/pkg/idtools"
@@ -100,8 +101,8 @@ func (c *Container) rootFsSize() (int64, error) {
 // for a given container.
 func (c *Container) rwSize() (int64, error) {
 	if c.config.Rootfs != "" {
-		size, err := util.SizeOfPath(c.config.Rootfs)
-		return int64(size), err
+		size, err := directory.Size(c.config.Rootfs)
+		return size, err
 	}
 
 	layerSize, err := c.runtime.store.ContainerSize(c.ID())
diff --git a/pkg/util/utils.go b/pkg/util/utils.go
index 9d027d38d4..4e034d95ce 100644
--- a/pkg/util/utils.go
+++ b/pkg/util/utils.go
@@ -25,7 +25,6 @@ import (
 	"github.com/opencontainers/runtime-spec/specs-go"
 	"github.com/sirupsen/logrus"
 	"go.podman.io/image/v5/types"
-	"go.podman.io/storage/pkg/directory"
 	"go.podman.io/storage/pkg/fileutils"
 	"go.podman.io/storage/pkg/idtools"
 	"go.podman.io/storage/pkg/unshare"
@@ -1200,15 +1199,6 @@ func LookupUser(name string) (*user.User, error) {
 	return user.Lookup(name)
 }
 
-// SizeOfPath determines the file usage of a given path. it was called volumeSize in v1
-// and now is made to be generic and take a path instead of a libpod volume
-//
-// Deprecated: use github.com/containers/storage/pkg/directory.Size() instead.
-func SizeOfPath(path string) (uint64, error) {
-	size, err := directory.Size(path)
-	return uint64(size), err
-}
-
 // ParseRestartPolicy parses the value given to the --restart flag and returns the policy
 // and restart retries value
 func ParseRestartPolicy(policy string) (string, uint, error) {