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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Tag: disk usage
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 – TUI remake of GNOME Baobab
Bonsai is a terminal user interface (TUI) remake of the GNOME Baobab disk usage analyzer.
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K4DirStat – small utility program
K4DirStat is a small open source utility that shows disk usage for directory trees. It displays the disk space used up by a directory tree.
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crossdirstat is a file and directory statistics tool
crossdirstat is a cross-platform file and directory statistics written using Electron.
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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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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 – TUI disk space navigator
diskonaut is a TUI-based terminal disk space navigator. It’s written in Rust.
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vizex – visualize disk space and disk usage
vizex is a command line interface program that shows how much free disk space you have. vizex is free and open source software.
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Excellent System Tools: nnn – portable terminal file manager
nnn is a free and open source terminal file manager written in the C programming language. nnn focuses on performance over features.
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dutree – reclaim precious hard disk space
dutree is a command line tool to analyze disk usage. It’s written in the Rust programming language. It’s free and open source software. How does it compare to other disk usage analyzers?
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Essential System Tools: QDirStat – Excellent Qt-based directory statistics
QDirStat is an open source graphical application to show where your disk space has gone and to help you to clean up the mess. It fully merits its inclusion in our Essential System Tools feature.
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