Duf: Disk Usage/Free Utility

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Post by kiyanwang » Sun, Sep 27, 2020, 7:00 AM UTC

Duf: Disk Usage/Free Utility
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Re: Duf: Disk Usage/Free Utility

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Post by walrus01 » Sun, Sep 27, 2020, 12:21 PM UTC

I wonder if this entire thing could be built into 'glances' as an alternate pane view.

https://nicolargo.github.io/glances/

Re: Duf: Disk Usage/Free Utility

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Post by tmd83 » Sun, Sep 27, 2020, 12:33 PM UTC

walrus01 wrote: post #2

I wonder if this entire thing could be built into 'glances' as an alternate pane view. https://nicolargo.github.io/glances/

Is there anything similar to glances that's native, super light. Don't have python in all production server and I wonder how weighty it would be when things are getting haywire .. or am I wrong and glances is lightweight enough?

Re: Duf: Disk Usage/Free Utility

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Post by surfsvammel » Sun, Sep 27, 2020, 12:33 PM UTC

I like it! Might have a go at rewriting something like this in Rust as an exercise.

Re: Duf: Disk Usage/Free Utility

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Post by nitinreddy88 » Sun, Sep 27, 2020, 12:48 PM UTC

tmd83 wrote: post #3

walrus01 wrote: post #2

I wonder if this entire thing could be built into 'glances' as an alternate pane view. https://nicolargo.github.io/glances/

Is there anything similar to glances that's native, super light. Don't have python in all production server and I wonder how weighty it would be when things are getting haywire .. or am I wrong and glances is lightweight enough?

Try bashtop

I dont prefer glances because of its dependencies of python and i really avoid installing big dependencies unless I feel its required for most of the other packages/use cases.

Re: Duf: Disk Usage/Free Utility

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Post by paledot » Sun, Sep 27, 2020, 1:23 PM UTC

surfsvammel wrote: post #4

I like it! Might have a go at rewriting something like this in Rust as an exercise.

Sounds like fun! Drop me a message if you get it going and want a collaborator.

Re: Duf: Disk Usage/Free Utility

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Post by nayuki » Sun, Sep 27, 2020, 1:34 PM UTC

Your program looks nice for a text-based UI. However, I think existing graphical tools are more powerful, especially when displaying a treemap visualization. Examples: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_utility#Disk_space_analyz...

Re: Duf: Disk Usage/Free Utility

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Post by ComputerGuru » Sun, Sep 27, 2020, 2:04 PM UTC

surfsvammel wrote: post #4

I like it! Might have a go at rewriting something like this in Rust as an exercise.

Already done, (un)fortunately:

https://github.com/bootandy/dust

Re: Duf: Disk Usage/Free Utility

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Post by [deleted] » Sun, Sep 27, 2020, 2:05 PM UTC

nayuki wrote: post #7

Your program looks nice for a text-based UI. However, I think existing graphical tools are more powerful, especially when displaying a treemap visualization. Examples: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_utility#Disk_space_analyz...

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Re: Duf: Disk Usage/Free Utility

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Post by someperson » Sun, Sep 27, 2020, 2:18 PM UTC

For a CLI alternative to manually running `du -sh *` recursively to try and find which directory is taking up your space I recommend `ncdu`.

I'm pretty sure there was a similar CLI app better than `ncdu` but I don't recall it right now.