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--- show_directories_with_sizes [2025/02/28 15:59] – walkeradmin
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 ====== Show Directories with Sizes ======
-<color #db5f0b>Feb 2022</color>
+<color #db5f0b>Feb 2025</color>
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+===== Introduction =====
+When we list directories, we generally just get permissions and dates of a directory, but sometimes, especially when we are trying to track down large directories that are consuming space, we want to list those directories with their file sizes.
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+==== LIst Directories with Size ====
+This is very simple to do, just use the following command:
+\\
+    du -sh *
+If you are in the root, you will see all the top level folders and subfolders, or you can run this from a specific folder and just see the subfolders there.
+\\
+<code>
-du -sh *
+       bin
+M    boot
+       dev
+M     etc
+K     home
+       lib
+       lib64
+K     lost+found
+.0K    media
+.0K    mnt
+.0G    opt
+       proc
+.5M    root
+G     run
+       sbin
+.0K    srv
+       sys
+K     tmp
+.1G    usr
+G     var
+</code>
+In the above example, we can see a listing of folders from the root, along with their folder sizes.
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