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Ncdu – NCurses Disk Usage

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Re: Ncdu – NCurses Disk Usage

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Post by desro »

I use ncdu almost daily across many different systems. Especially handy when running macOS on a `rmlint` and `jdupes` are also seeing a lot of use here lately, reclaiming terabytes of space from years of sloppy media organization (or the lack thereof!)

Re: Ncdu – NCurses Disk Usage

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Post by flir »

Farow wrote: post #23
macote wrote: post #22

The best tool I've used on Windows for that is "Scanner" by Steffen Gerlach: http://www.steffengerlach.de/freeware/

I'm personally a fan of SpaceSniffer: http://www.uderzo.it/main_products/space_sniffer/index.html

While we're listing them, Disk Inventory X (https://www.derlien.com/)

Re: Ncdu – NCurses Disk Usage

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Post by netsharc »

pilif wrote: post #17
mahemola wrote: post #10

Nice 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

The subsequent scans feel a lot faster, I suspect due to caching.

Re: Ncdu – NCurses Disk Usage

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Post by flir »

patwolf wrote: post #8

I 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.

Try https://www.derlien.com/ - GPL. Might fit your needs.

Re: Ncdu – NCurses Disk Usage

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Post by macote »

Farow wrote: post #23
macote wrote: post #22

The best tool I've used on Windows for that is "Scanner" by Steffen Gerlach: http://www.steffengerlach.de/freeware/

I'm personally a fan of SpaceSniffer: http://www.uderzo.it/main_products/space_sniffer/index.html

Thanks for sharing! I really like the real time update during progress. You sometimes have to wait a very long time in Scanner before you see the result.

Re: Ncdu – NCurses Disk Usage

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Post by mandarax8 »

salmo wrote: post #18

Interesting. 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…

You mean `du` right?
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