====== Show Directories with Sizes ======
Feb 2025
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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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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.
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