====== 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. \\ \\ ----