ncdu Reviews and Details

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• Anthropic Cowork feature creates 10GB VM bundle on macOS without warning

  Something like https://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdu with ("brew install ncdu") is great if you are okay with the command line. It's very annoying to drill down in the Finder especially if it's hidden directories. - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

• How to clean your virtual server (VPS)

  For an even more detailed analysis, take a look at tools such as ncdu, a disk usage viewer in terminal mode. - Source: dev.to / over 1 year ago

• Ask HN: Interesting TUIs (text user interfaces), maybe forgotten ones?

  These certainly aren't forgotten, but I like: * `ranger` file manager: https://ranger.github.io/ * `ncdu` for visualising disk usage: https://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdu * `htop` process monitor: https://htop.dev/ I just find them very intuitive, and information-dense while not being overwhelming. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

• What’s using my drive space?

  There are also more user-friendly and interactive tools to do this. I use and like ncdu, but there are others, such as duc. Source: about 3 years ago

• The Most Useful Command Line Tools (2023 edition)

  In the same way of Dust, there is also NCDU which is an NCruses-based du interface, i.e. interactive. Source: over 3 years ago

• ec2 ebs volume getting full

  Or try ncdu if you want a simple TUI style display of what's using what. Source: over 3 years ago

• pve-root storage 90% full

  If you prefer a more graphical/interactive disk usage explorer check out ncdu https://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdu. Source: over 3 years ago

• I've been trying to find my Steam game files for about 20-30 minutes.

  It took only a minute to locate this information using the awesome fast commandline tool ncdu. Source: over 3 years ago

• How to free up space in PopOS

  Use ncdu (https://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdu) to check each folder size starting from root (/). Use ncdu as root user. Source: over 3 years ago

• Software I’m Thankful For

  Lots of good entries, I'll add a few that haven't been mentioned yet: - ncdu, to find out which files and folders take up most of the disk space [1] - julia, because scientific programming was never so fun and fast [2] - midnight commander, because a TUI implementing Norton Commander dual-pane view is so useful! [3] - lazarus, because creating multi-platform desktop apps couldn't be simpler [4] [1]... - Source: Hacker News / almost 4 years ago

• Manage Disk Usage from the Terminal

  The tools I used in the video were… • du — the native command • dust — du + rust = dust. Like du but more intuitive https://github.com/bootandy/dust • ncdu — an interactive TUI disk usage analyzer https://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdu. Source: almost 4 years ago

• Steam eating up a lot of disk space

  You could try a tree size viewing program like ncdu, it's probably in your package manager. This lets you look at each folder and see how much space it uses compared to others, then step into one and see the same view with it's subfolders. Great way to track down mysterious excess disk usage. Usually it is cache files or logs in my experience. Source: about 4 years ago

• Lost 30 GB of memory from just trying to unzip a file(Ubuntu) * Mega noob warning *

  Install a tool like https://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdu and check in which directory there is a large amount of data and delete it if you are sure that it is the unpacked data. Source: over 4 years ago

• MUST HAVE Linux Programs/Commands?

  Firejail to isolate applications within the same user account. Tmux to have detachable multiple windows and multiple panes in the terminal. Jq to parse JSON. q to run SQL queries on CSV files. Yt-dlp to download videos from everywhere. Ncdu to visualize and explore disk usage. Htop to monitor processes and resources. Source: over 4 years ago

• How to free up disk space?

  Ncdu is great for seeing what is taking up space....press 'd' to delete. Source: over 4 years ago

• I hate automod and have a question

  I'm aware of them, but not familiar. I always use tools like Filelight, ncdu, and fd and do my own cleaning. Source: over 4 years ago

• Is there a detailed Storage analyzer plugin similar to Space Sniffer?

  Ncdu is the awesome. https://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdu. Source: over 4 years ago

• Hello all, I need help sorting my files by size!

  Not exactly a script, but you might try ncdu (https://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdu). Source: over 4 years ago

• What's a small Linux program that you don't give much thought but makes your life a hundred times easier from time to time?

  Ncdu when I want to find out what takes up all the space in a folder. Source: about 5 years ago

• Wordpress Server SSD Full. How do I find files to delete?

  Because the problem with --max-depth=1 has already been solved, I would advise using ncdu instead of du. This makes it easier to navigate within the directories so that you can quickly find the data that occupy the storage space. Source: about 5 years ago

• I'll have you know I've been working on computers for 10 years ....

  Or NCDU from the terminal, which works great on Mac and Linux! Source: about 5 years ago