gzip provides the standard GNU file compression utilities, which are also the default compression tools for Debian.
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Category: Utilities
pixz – parallel, indexed xz compressor
pixz is a parallel, indexed xz compressor. pixz produces a collection of smaller blocks which makes random access to the original data possible.
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lzop – file compressor favoring speed over compression ratio
lzop is a file compressor which is very similar to gzip. lzop uses the LZO data compression library for compression services.
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pigz – parallel implementation of gzip
pigz is a fully functional replacement for gzip that uses multiple processors and multiple cores to the hilt when compressing data.
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Brotli – generic-purpose lossless compression algorithm
Brotli is a generic-purpose lossless compression algorithm that compresses data.
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Zstandard – fast compression algorithm, providing high compression ratios
Zstandard is a fast compression algorithm, providing high compression ratios.
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LZ4 – lossless data compression algorithm focused on compression and decompression speed
LZ4 is lossless compression algorithm, providing compression speed > 500 MB/s per core (>0.15 Bytes/cycle).
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xdiskusage – user-friendly software to show your disk usage
xdiskusage is a user-friendly program to show you what is using up all your disk space. It is based on the design of xdu.
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SquirrelDisk – disk usage tool
SquirrelDisk is a GUI tool to help you reclaim disk space. It’s written in TypeScript and Rust and published under an open source license.
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agedu – utility for tracking down wasted disk space
agedu is a utility for tracking down wasted disk space. It correlates disk usage with last-access times to identify large and disused data.
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Disk Usage Analyser – view and monitor your disk usage and folder structure
Disk Usage Analyser (also known as baobab) is a graphical, menu-driven application to view and monitor your disk usage and folder structure.
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Filelight – tool to show disk usage
Filelight allows you to determine disk space being used by graphically representating your filesystem as a set of concentric segmented-rings.
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dirstat-rs – disk usage cli
dirstat-rs is a command-line disk usage utility, similar to windirstat. The tool can output sorted JSON.
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tdu – top disk usage
This command-line tool estimates the disk space occupied by all files in a given path.
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pdu – parallel disk usage utility
Parallel Disk Usage (pdu) is a highly parallelized, fast directory tree analyzer.
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godu – disk usage analyzer
godu is a simple golang utility helping you to discover large files/folders. This is a terminal based tool.
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erdtree – multi-threaded file-tree visualizer and disk usage analyzer
erdtree is multi-threaded file-tree visualizer and disk usage analyzer that respects hidden files and .gitignore rules by default.
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dua – disk usage analyzer
dua (Disk Usage Analyzer) is a tool to conveniently learn about the usage of disk space of a given directory.
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gdu – disk usage analyzer
gdu is a disk usage analyser with console interface. gdu is free and open source software.
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ncdu – disk usage analyzer with an ncurses interface
NCurses Disk Usage (ncdu) is a ncurses-based du viewer. It provides a fast and easy-to-use interface through the well known du utility.
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