Excise is a terminal storage navigator with interactive disk maps, careful space accounting, reporting and safeguards for permanent deletion.
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Tag: disk usage
Essential Utilities: Reclaiming Disk Space (GUI Tools)
Linux offers an unsurpassed breadth of open source small utilities that perform functions ranging from the mundane to the wonderful. These tools help make Linux a compelling operating system.
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Usage – analyse system resources and storage
Usage is a GNOME utility for checking CPU, memory, network activity and storage usage, with accessible views of running applications.
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diskard – interactive terminal disk usage analyzer
diskard is a terminal disk usage analyzer with multithreaded scanning, file-extension breakdowns, file counts and trash support.
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mcdu – disk usage analyzer and developer cleanup tool
mcdu combines an interactive disk usage browser with developer-cache cleanup, parallel scans, deletion safeguards and JSON audit logs.
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NoxDir – terminal disk usage visualizer
NoxDir provides a keyboard-driven terminal disk usage browser with mounted volume detection, directory filters and visual size metrics.
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btdu – sampling disk usage profiler for btrfs
btdu is a sampling disk usage profiler for btrfs. It’s written in the D language.
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dusage – command-line disk usage information tool
dusage is a command line disk usage information tool written in the Rust programming language.
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SpaceMan – fast graphical disk usage analyser
SpaceMan scans directories using a responsive graphical treemap, with live scan results, multithreading and navigable folder views.
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pkgdu – display Arch packages disk usage size
pkgdu is a tool to display packages disk usage size for Arch Linux.
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duviz – render ASCII-art representation of disk space usage
duviz is a (Python 3) command-line tool to visualize disk space usage.
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dut – disk usage calculator
By default, dut will output a tree of the biggest directories it finds under your current directory.
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Bonsai – terminal disk usage visualizer
Bonsai visualises disk usage with a terminal pie chart, directory sidebar, asynchronous scanning, file highlighting and deletion.
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K4DirStat – graphical directory statistics and disk cleanup
K4DirStat displays directory sizes numerically and as treemaps, with configurable cleanup commands and cached disk usage analysis.
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crossdirstat – graphical file and directory statistics
crossdirstat visualises directory sizes with coloured treemaps, file type statistics and exports to JSON, SVG or PNG formats.
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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Google Files
Files is a file management app developed by Google for file browsing, media consumption, storage clean-up and offline file transfer. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives for Linux.
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space – disk space analyzer and cleaner
space analyses disk usage with an interactive terminal tree, size and path filters, non-interactive reporting and selective deletion.
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dfc – report file system space usage information
dfc is a tool to report file system space usage information. When the output is a terminal, it uses color and graphs by default.
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cdu – du like command
cdu (Colour du) is a du like command but displays an attractive histogram with optional colours.
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diskonaut – terminal disk space navigator
diskonaut explores directory sizes using a terminal treemap, progressive scanning, navigable folders and deletion space tracking.
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