Show Directories with Sizes

Feb 2025

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.

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.

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

In the above example, we can see a listing of folders from the root, along with their folder sizes.