Very simply, I wanted an easy way to list out the sizes of directories and all of the contents of those directories recursively.
df will show the total disk usage
ls -l will show you sizes of items in a folder.
The answer is to use the following:
du -h --max-depth=1 /path/folder/
This will list out the contents of /path/folder/ and show the total size of the folder’s contents:
Sample Output: 209G /mnt/share/data 2.4G /mnt/share/Backups 54G /mnt/share/Bin 4.8G /mnt/share/Library 270G /mnt/share/
Changing the max-depth to 2 will delve 1 more folder deep into the structure and give the sizes as well.
