Re: [PLUG] Good tools to assay disk usage in linux

[JP Vossen <jp@jpsdomain.org>]

I used to use `du -hl <various>` a lot until I found `ncdu` which is a 
curses-based CLI tool.  The awesome part is that it walks the tree 
first, then you can navigate around instantly, to see what's what.  It's 
in the repos for Debuntu-like systems.

`man ncdu` and see "-x" and  "--exclude-caches" also.


If that doesn't work, here are some other clues:
http://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdu/
* gt5 - Quite similar to ncdu, but a different approach.
* tdu - Another small ncurses-based disk usage visualization utility.
* TreeSize - GTK, using a treeview.
* Baobab - GTK, using pie-charts, a treeview and a treemap. Comes with 
GNOME.
* GdMap - GTK, with a treemap display.
* Filelight - KDE, using pie-charts.
* KDirStat - KDE, with a treemap display.
* QDiskUsage - Qt, using pie-charts.
* xdiskusage - FLTK, with a treemap display.
* fsv - 3D visualization.
* Philesight - Web-based clone of Filelight.


On 04/20/2016 10:56 AM, Michael Lazin wrote:
> I often use "du -sh ./*" to see what directory in a webspace uses the
> most space.  This will list the size of each directory you are in in
> human readable format.  If you want something fancier let me know.  I
> can probably point you in the right direction.
>
> On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 10:54 AM, Paul Walker <pjwalker76@gmail.com
> <mailto:pjwalker76@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Looking for good command line tools for assaying disk usage. I'd
>     like to be able to crawl the disk down to an arbitrary depth and
>     output the size of each directory. I don't really want to write too
>     much bash in the process! Any good goto tools you could share?

Later,
JP
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