Nice tool - although with remote machines my go-to tool is KDE filelight, the joy of remote X11.
Ncdu – NCurses Disk Usage
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#12ncdu is fabulous. I used it a while back on my 2009 Mac mini and recovered 40GB of disk space. 8GB of this was in just four folders: ~/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/MobileDevice, /private/var/db/systemstats, /System/Library/Caches/com.apple.coresymbolicationd, and /Library/Caches/com.apple.iconservices.store.
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#13I never knew about this tool, but it looks quite useful--much better than just using df. The only thing I wish it had was a squarified treemap view of disk space. There was an old graphical tool for Windows called SequoiaView that I used to use years ago, and I've never found a worthy replacement for it on Linux or MacOS.
sequoiaview looks like a clone of kdirstat, which is available on all platforms.
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#14If you like ncdu, you might also like dua[0]. You can run `dua i` to get an interface similar to ncdu, and can also run `dua` to list file sizes in the current directory, similar to `du`. Or `dua filename` to get the size of a given file.
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#16Best tool I've ever used for finding where I could free up some disk space
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#17Nice GUI to `du -h --max-depth=1 .` or `du --max-depth=1 . | sort -n -r`
The other big advantage over just being a gui is that it Scans the filesystem ahead of time and keeps the data across your navigation into directories.
du will have to rescan as you traverse down the tree
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#18Interesting. I’ve just used df-m | sort -n and walked the tree from the CLI for so long.
I’ve also used windirstat (I think that’s what it was called) years ago on Windows and Disk Inventory X on MacOS graphically.
This seems like a nice in between that could replace both methods for me. I’ll have to try.
The GUI bunch of squares is really only useful when you can hover with a mouse and would be clunky in a TUI even if you could render it. And the FS structure isn’t immediately obvious, so I find myself wasting time wandering hovering over big files and globs of little ones.
I really like to avoid a mouse when I can unless it’s really useful.
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#19Interesting. I’ve just used df-m | sort -n and walked the tree from the CLI for so long. I’ve also used windirstat (I think that’s what it was called) years ago on Windows and Disk Inventory X on MacOS graphically. This seems like a nice in between that could replace both methods for me. I’ll have to try. The GUI bunch of squares is really only useful when you can hover with a mouse and would be clunky in a TUI even…
FYI I recently discovered sort —-human is a thing so you can keep the K/M/G units if you want to.
However I use ncdu all the time.
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#20If you like ncdu, you might also like dua[0]. You can run `dua i` to get an interface similar to ncdu, and can also run `dua` to list file sizes in the current directory, similar to `du`. Or `dua filename ` to get the size of a given file. [0] https://github.com/Byron/dua-cli
The UI is not as good but it’s multi threaded and much faster.