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====== Show Directories with Sizes ======
<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:
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    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.
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<code>
0       bin
225M    boot
0       dev
27M     etc
72K     home
0       lib
0       lib64
16K     lost+found
4.0K    media
4.0K    mnt
4.0G    opt
0       proc
5.5M    root
13G     run
0       sbin
4.0K    srv
0       sys
28K     tmp
2.1G    usr
32G     var
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In the above example, we can see a listing of folders from the root, along with their folder sizes.
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