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xdiskusage – lightweight graphical disk usage viewer

October 20, 2023 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

xdiskusage provides a lightweight graphical view of disk usage, using du and df output to reveal large directories and free space.

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agedu – identify unused disk space using file access times

October 20, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities, Web Apps

agedu compares disk usage with file access times, generating navigable HTML reports to help identify large collections of old data.

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Disk Usage Analyzer – graphical disk space analyser for GNOME

October 20, 2023 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Disk Usage Analyzer visualises folder sizes and storage volumes in GNOME, using graphical charts and directory trees to locate large files.

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Filelight – graphical disk usage visualisation

October 20, 2023 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Filelight displays storage use with interactive radial charts, letting you inspect large folders, removable drives and remote locations.

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dirstat-rs – command-line disk usage analyzer

October 20, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

dirstat-rs analyses directory sizes from the terminal with configurable depth, percentage thresholds, apparent sizes and JSON output.

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tdu – report top disk usage from the command line

October 20, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

tdu reports the largest disk consumers in a directory, including deep paths, file statistics, errors and Ncdu-compatible JSON export.

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pdu – parallel disk usage utility

October 20, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

pdu displays parallel disk usage analysis as terminal charts with adjustable depth, size metrics, JSON exchange and progress reporting.

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godu – interactive terminal disk usage analyzer

October 20, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, TUI, Utilities

godu is an interactive terminal disk usage browser for locating large files and directories, with filtering and file selection tools.

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erdtree – multi-threaded file tree and disk usage analyzer

October 20, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

erdtree combines a filesystem tree viewer with disk usage analysis, configurable layouts, sorting, filtering and ignore-file support.

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dua – fast disk usage analyzer

October 20, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, TUI, Utilities

dua scans directories in parallel and offers disk usage summaries, interactive navigation, selective deletion and flexible size accounting.

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gdu – fast interactive disk usage analyzer

October 20, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, TUI, Utilities

gdu analyses directory sizes with parallel scanning, interactive navigation, filtering, archive browsing and optional browser viewing.

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Ncdu – interactive terminal disk usage analyzer

October 20, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, TUI, Utilities

Ncdu is an interactive terminal disk usage analyser with directory navigation, size sorting, configurable scans and exportable results.

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Duc – inspect and visualize disk usage

October 20, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, TUI, Utilities

Duc indexes directory sizes and provides command-line, terminal, graphical and web views to investigate disk usage on large filesystems.

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vizex – visualize disk space and disk usage

July 8, 2021 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, Utilities

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

February 24, 2020 Luke Baker CLI, Reviews, Utilities

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

February 10, 2020 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Utilities

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

February 20, 2019 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, System Software

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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