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: 10 months ago
In the same way of Dust, there is also NCDU which is an NCruses-based du interface, i.e. interactive. Source: about 1 year ago
Or try ncdu if you want a simple TUI style display of what's using what. Source: about 1 year ago
If you prefer a more graphical/interactive disk usage explorer check out ncdu https://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdu. Source: over 1 year ago
It took only a minute to locate this information using the awesome fast commandline tool ncdu. Source: over 1 year ago
Use ncdu (https://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdu) to check each folder size starting from root (/). Use ncdu as root user. Source: over 1 year ago
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 / over 1 year ago
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: over 1 year ago
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: almost 2 years ago
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: about 2 years ago
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: about 2 years ago
Ncdu is great for seeing what is taking up space....press 'd' to delete. Source: about 2 years ago
I'm aware of them, but not familiar. I always use tools like Filelight, ncdu, and fd and do my own cleaning. Source: over 2 years ago
Ncdu is the awesome. https://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdu. Source: over 2 years ago
Not exactly a script, but you might try ncdu (https://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdu). Source: over 2 years ago
Ncdu when I want to find out what takes up all the space in a folder. Source: over 2 years ago
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: almost 3 years ago
Or NCDU from the terminal, which works great on Mac and Linux! Source: almost 3 years ago
Ncdu is a disk usage analyzer just like du. But ncdu has a unique approach to this problem of disk usage. - Source: dev.to / almost 3 years ago
Ncdu (text based disk space calculator, see what eats up your storage in a fast way). Source: about 3 years ago
And ncdu (NCurses Disk Usage (like broot -w)) written on C. Source: about 3 years ago
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