Ncdu – NCurses Disk Usage

Post by password4321 » Wed, Dec 07, 2022, 6:19 PM UTC

electroly wrote: post #36

macote wrote: post #22

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

WizTree is vastly faster than the other options presented here (Scanner, SpaceSniffer, WinDirStat).

Post by jstimpfle » Wed, Dec 07, 2022, 6:27 PM UTC

esaym wrote: post #102

I don't really see the point of a gfx ui for this. I just live on the edge: find / -type f -mtime +200 -exec rm -f {} \;

    du -hs * | sort -h

Post by xorcist » Wed, Dec 07, 2022, 6:43 PM UTC

thecosmicfrog wrote: post #61

jrm4 wrote: post #55

Broadly, is anyone aware of a generalized list of "new versions of classic tools?" There are so many now that are better than the old stuff; I almost feel like a unified round up of these, maybe even in a distro form, might be good for linux enthusiasts, newcomers, old-timers, etc.

I like iotop. Pretty much exactly what it sounds like - a top-like program for I/O operations. It's also just an apt/yum/dnf install away on most distros.

Post by agleason » Wed, Dec 07, 2022, 7:06 PM UTC

the_gipsy wrote: post #80

wjdp wrote: post #44

While ncdu does the job I've found gdu (similar tool written in Go) significantly faster for larger directories. https://github.com/dundee/gdu

Someone's gotta write rdu.

Post by thecosmicfrog » Wed, Dec 07, 2022, 7:10 PM UTC

Sohcahtoa82 wrote: post #77

thecosmicfrog wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I find myself using WinDirStat on Windows systems, but often use ncdu in WSL.

On Windows, you should switch to WizTree. Rather than recursively calling directory listing functions, it directly reads and parses the file tables itself. This makes it orders of magnitude faster. I have a 2 TB hard drive full of a million files, and WizTree reads and parses it all in under a minute, whereas I can expect WinDirStat to take half an hour. On an SSD, WizTree only takes a couple seconds.