Genuinely the only way I use du is like this: du -sh * which shows total disk usage for every file and folder in the current directory. I've actually aliase

Genuinely the only way I use du is like this: du -sh * which shows total disk usage for every file and folder in the current directory. I've actually aliased it as `dush` because I use it so often. Bonus tip: if you're using btrfs, it has a built-in du that keeps track of cow statistics, so you can see which files/folders are deduped and which aren't. It's invoked with btrfs filesystem du -s * or (because the btrfs binary understands abbreviations) btrfs fi du -s *