The best tool I've used on Windows for that is "Scanner" by Steffen Gerlach: http://www.steffengerlach.de/freeware/
I find myself using WinDirStat on Windows systems, but often use ncdu in WSL.
Ncdu – NCurses Disk Usage
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#32TIL that my `.xsession-errors` file is ~16GB. Thanks, `ncdu`!
(I should probably look into this...)
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#33The best tool I've used on Windows for that is "Scanner" by Steffen Gerlach: http://www.steffengerlach.de/freeware/
I use WinDirStat on Windows
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#34It's a neat tool. Not quite clear why it's #1 on hn though?
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#35One I don't see mentioned here is xdiskusage (for Linux) which gives a nice 20th century style X11 tree view of your disk usage.
xdiskusage -qa /
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#36The 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).
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#37Love the tool.
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#38I 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.
GrandPerspective is in the mac app store and at least for my needs was similar enough to SequoiaView.
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#39Have been using ncdu for more than a decade, and recently started using diskonaut for similar purposes. Was looking for a terminal-based treemap visualization for analyzing disk usage and stumbled upon diskonaut, which is exactly that.
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#40ncdu is one of the most useful tools I've come across to quickly get rid of unneeded files in remote servers. Top program.