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Re: Ncdu – NCurses Disk Usage

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Post by andrewstuart2 » Wed, Dec 07, 2022, 2:55 PM UTC

chrisallenlane wrote: post #32

TIL that my `.xsession-errors` file is ~16GB. Thanks, `ncdu`! (I should probably look into this...)

> This is fine.

Re: Ncdu – NCurses Disk Usage

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Post by brazzledazzle » Wed, Dec 07, 2022, 3:09 PM UTC

I use ncdu a lot. It’s not strictly necessary but it’s really nice to have in the toolbox. Also IIRC there is a standalone binary available which comes in handy when you can’t install packages on a full filesystem.

Re: Ncdu – NCurses Disk Usage

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Post by antisthenes » Wed, Dec 07, 2022, 3:11 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).

It's also the one that's much more regularly updated.

Re: Ncdu – NCurses Disk Usage

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Post by wjdp » Wed, Dec 07, 2022, 3:11 PM UTC

While ncdu does the job I've found gdu (similar tool written in Go) significantly faster for larger directories.

https://github.com/dundee/gdu

Re: Ncdu – NCurses Disk Usage

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Post by michaelsbradley » Wed, Dec 07, 2022, 3:12 PM UTC

growlight may be of interest as well:

https://github.com/dankamongmen/growlight#readme

Re: Ncdu – NCurses Disk Usage

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Post by topspin » Wed, Dec 07, 2022, 3:17 PM UTC

Used the zig static build in offline mode yesterday to hunt down a excessive storage consumer. Highly effective.

Another tool I've used is jdiskreport[1]. It's a java app with a straightforward GUI. File system scanning is multi-threaded and quite efficient.

1. http://www.jgoodies.com/freeware/jdiskreport/

Re: Ncdu – NCurses Disk Usage

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Post by Sakos » Wed, Dec 07, 2022, 3:18 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).

Switched to this a few years ago. Far better than anything else I've tried.

Re: Ncdu – NCurses Disk Usage

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Post by luke-stanley » Wed, Dec 07, 2022, 3:19 PM UTC

I have used ncdu for a long time, and it's good if you have time to wait for it to get sizes, if you can't, Duc AKA "Dude, where are my bytes" has caching and is ready to apt install on Debian and Ubuntu repos https://duc.zevv.nl and it has different GUI options. It's slightly more complex but for larger volumes I use it instead of ncdu.

Re: Ncdu – NCurses Disk Usage

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Post by smcameron » Wed, Dec 07, 2022, 3:25 PM UTC

mandarax8 wrote: post #30

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?

I always used "du -S | sort -n" ... I think... it's been a long time since I've needed to worry about disk space.

Re: Ncdu – NCurses Disk Usage

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Post by alt227 » Wed, Dec 07, 2022, 3:29 PM UTC

The trick with ncdu is to install it BEFORE your disk gets full from some random error log going haywire.