show_directories_with_sizes
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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.
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