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Duf: Disk Usage/Free Utility

191 points by kiyanwang 6y ago

walrus01 6y ago
I wonder if this entire thing could be built into 'glances' as an alternate pane view. https://nicolargo.github.io/glances/ https://nicolargo.github.io/glances/
- tmd83 6y ago
  Is there anything similar to glances that's native, super light. Don't have python in all production server and I wonder how weighty it would be when things are getting haywire .. or am I wrong and glances is lightweight enough?
  - nitinreddy88 6y ago
    Try bashtop I dont prefer glances because of its dependencies of python and i really avoid installing big dependencies unless I feel its required for most of the other packages/use cases.
    - tmd83 6y ago
      It seems bashtop is being deprecated in favour of a python based program for ease of maintenance and it actually uses less cpu. Makes sense if it's doing a lot of work in bash.
surfsvammel 6y ago
I like it! Might have a go at rewriting something like this in Rust as an exercise.
- paledot 6y ago
  Sounds like fun! Drop me a message if you get it going and want a collaborator.
- ComputerGuru 6y ago
  Already done, (un)fortunately: https://github.com/bootandy/dust https://github.com/bootandy/dust
  - tleb_ 6y ago
    Duf seems close to `df` while dust seems closer to `du`.
- vkat 6y ago
  Was just thinking the same!
  - makapuf 6y ago
    Why? This is a real question. Is it because of the pleasure of writing rust, getting rid of go? Speed? Size?
nayuki 6y ago
Your program looks nice for a text-based UI. However, I think existing graphical tools are more powerful, especially when displaying a treemap visualization. Examples: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_utility#Disk_space_analyzers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_utility#Disk_space_analyz...
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someperson 6y ago
For a CLI alternative to manually running `du -sh *` recursively to try and find which directory is taking up your space I recommend `ncdu`. I'm pretty sure there was a similar CLI app better than `ncdu` but I don't recall it right now.
- zevv 6y ago
  There is also Duc: https://duc.zevv.nl/ https://duc.zevv.nl/. It has a both a Tui and a Gui, but can also do nifty CGI things (shameless plug)
  - fmajid 6y ago
    Seconded. Duc is awesome. Thanks for your great work on it!
  - dmd 6y ago
    I love duc but man is it nearly impossible to build.
    - zevv 6y ago
      author here. please drop your grievances in a github issue t see if we can help you out, because building should be a simple as "configure && make && make install"
- unhammer 6y ago
  baobab is a nice GUI alternative that has similar graphs to duc, except I can never remember the name =P (fortunately it shows up when I search the "start menu" for "usage") https://wiki.gnome.org/action/show/Apps/DiskUsageAnalyzer https://wiki.gnome.org/action/show/Apps/DiskUsageAnalyzer
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- ape4 6y ago
  I use `ncdu --color dark` for pretty colors.
yellow_lead 6y ago
Does this utility accept directories as parameters? Couldn't see an example in the readme and the screenshot only shows the full-screen disk view. i.e duf directory
throwaway8941 6y ago
From glancing at the source code I believe this uses the same algorithm as df from coreutils. It outputs pretty much useless data for btrfs, which needs to be handled differently. See: $ btrfs fi df $ btrfs fi us
bransonf 6y ago
I have been using Spacesniffer [0] for over a decade now. But glad to see some new attempts in the space for disk usage. [0] http://www.uderzo.it/main_products/space_sniffer/ http://www.uderzo.it/main_products/space_sniffer/
- johnchristopher 6y ago
  +1 for spacesniffer (and the old spacemonger) I wish there were more disk space analyzer like it that use rectangular blocks of space rather than circles which I find harder to read how much space they actually take on disk.
- taffit 6y ago
  While I love the animation and zooming in and out of folder, I found that WizTree [0] is by far the fastest reading the file structure and sizes. Neither SpaceSniffer nor WinDirStat can compare to its speed. [0] https://wiztreefree.com/ https://wiztreefree.com/
jbaber 6y ago
pip install [ohmu] for a nice ascii treemap. [ohmu]: https://gitlab.com/paul-nechifor/ohmu https://gitlab.com/paul-nechifor/ohmu
wanghq 6y ago
Looking for ideas to build http://dfdu.com http://dfdu.com. What should be there to ease the usage of these two commands? 1. Include the tools listed here 2. Add command usage examples
jedbrown 6y ago
Filelight is convenient if you prefer a GUI for this sort of exploration. https://kde.org/applications/en/filelight https://kde.org/applications/en/filelight
- simcop2387 6y ago
  I personally have used k4dirstat, but while finding it's webpage I found out that there's a more modern fork/recreation called qdirstat that doesn't need kde either called qdirstat. https://github.com/shundhammer/qdirstat https://github.com/shundhammer/qdirstat
  - Aengeuad 6y ago
    There's also windirstat for windows. https://windirstat.net/ https://windirstat.net/
- Heliosmaster 6y ago
  Disk Inventory X for MacOS: http://www.derlien.com/ http://www.derlien.com/
Syzygies 6y ago
Duf doesn't understand MacOS APFS volumes. I have two such volumes sharing my primary SSD. For those accustomed to more primitive file systems, one doesn't have to arbitrarily divide a drive into volumes of separate fixed sizes. Volumes on an APFS drive can share pooled free space. My two volumes sharing a drive have separate percentages that look quite healthy, but their combined percentage reveals that I am perilously short on space. Duf doesn't know to combine these percentages. DaisyDisk (a wonderful GUI app for managing MacOS disk space) makes the problem clear.
- dpedu 6y ago
  This issue would be encountered with ZFS too.
ozmaverick72 6y ago
Haven’t tried it yet but the —hide-network option sounds really useful to me. The number of times I’ve been looking for free space on local file system when I have some massive ntfs remote file system mounted and trying to get that excluded from other utilities is a massive pain in the butt.
yamadapc 6y ago
I’ll plug my own fast OSX scanner, though “storage management” got better recently (or I hadn’t noticed when using it initially). https://beijaflor.io/blog/06-2020/filesaver-freeing-up-space/ https://beijaflor.io/blog/06-2020/filesaver-freeing-up-space...
mikecoles 6y ago
xdiskusage has been my go-to when using a gui. Package info from Debian: https://packages.debian.org/sid/x11/xdiskusage https://packages.debian.org/sid/x11/xdiskusage

191 points by kiyanwang 6y ago

I wonder if this entire thing could be built into 'glances' as an alternate pane view. https://nicolargo.github.io/glances/ https://nicolargo.github.io/glances/

tmd83 6y ago
Is there anything similar to glances that's native, super light. Don't have python in all production server and I wonder how weighty it would be when things are getting haywire .. or am I wrong and glances is lightweight enough?
- nitinreddy88 6y ago
  Try bashtop I dont prefer glances because of its dependencies of python and i really avoid installing big dependencies unless I feel its required for most of the other packages/use cases.
  - tmd83 6y ago
    It seems bashtop is being deprecated in favour of a python based program for ease of maintenance and it actually uses less cpu. Makes sense if it's doing a lot of work in bash.

surfsvammel 6y ago

I like it! Might have a go at rewriting something like this in Rust as an exercise.

paledot 6y ago
Sounds like fun! Drop me a message if you get it going and want a collaborator.
ComputerGuru 6y ago
Already done, (un)fortunately: https://github.com/bootandy/dust https://github.com/bootandy/dust
- tleb_ 6y ago
  Duf seems close to `df` while dust seems closer to `du`.
vkat 6y ago
Was just thinking the same!
- makapuf 6y ago
  Why? This is a real question. Is it because of the pleasure of writing rust, getting rid of go? Speed? Size?

nayuki 6y ago

Your program looks nice for a text-based UI. However, I think existing graphical tools are more powerful, especially when displaying a treemap visualization. Examples: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_utility#Disk_space_analyzers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_utility#Disk_space_analyz...

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someperson 6y ago

For a CLI alternative to manually running `du -sh *` recursively to try and find which directory is taking up your space I recommend `ncdu`. I'm pretty sure there was a similar CLI app better than `ncdu` but I don't recall it right now.

zevv 6y ago
There is also Duc: https://duc.zevv.nl/ https://duc.zevv.nl/. It has a both a Tui and a Gui, but can also do nifty CGI things (shameless plug)
- fmajid 6y ago
  Seconded. Duc is awesome. Thanks for your great work on it!
- dmd 6y ago
  I love duc but man is it nearly impossible to build.
  - zevv 6y ago
    author here. please drop your grievances in a github issue t see if we can help you out, because building should be a simple as "configure && make && make install"
unhammer 6y ago
baobab is a nice GUI alternative that has similar graphs to duc, except I can never remember the name =P (fortunately it shows up when I search the "start menu" for "usage") https://wiki.gnome.org/action/show/Apps/DiskUsageAnalyzer https://wiki.gnome.org/action/show/Apps/DiskUsageAnalyzer
- deleted 6y ago
  [deleted]
ape4 6y ago
I use `ncdu --color dark` for pretty colors.

yellow_lead 6y ago

Does this utility accept directories as parameters? Couldn't see an example in the readme and the screenshot only shows the full-screen disk view. i.e duf directory

throwaway8941 6y ago

From glancing at the source code I believe this uses the same algorithm as df from coreutils. It outputs pretty much useless data for btrfs, which needs to be handled differently. See: $ btrfs fi df $ btrfs fi us

bransonf 6y ago

I have been using Spacesniffer [0] for over a decade now. But glad to see some new attempts in the space for disk usage. [0] http://www.uderzo.it/main_products/space_sniffer/ http://www.uderzo.it/main_products/space_sniffer/

johnchristopher 6y ago
+1 for spacesniffer (and the old spacemonger) I wish there were more disk space analyzer like it that use rectangular blocks of space rather than circles which I find harder to read how much space they actually take on disk.
taffit 6y ago
While I love the animation and zooming in and out of folder, I found that WizTree [0] is by far the fastest reading the file structure and sizes. Neither SpaceSniffer nor WinDirStat can compare to its speed. [0] https://wiztreefree.com/ https://wiztreefree.com/

jbaber 6y ago

pip install [ohmu] for a nice ascii treemap. [ohmu]: https://gitlab.com/paul-nechifor/ohmu https://gitlab.com/paul-nechifor/ohmu

wanghq 6y ago

Looking for ideas to build http://dfdu.com http://dfdu.com. What should be there to ease the usage of these two commands? 1. Include the tools listed here 2. Add command usage examples

jedbrown 6y ago

Filelight is convenient if you prefer a GUI for this sort of exploration. https://kde.org/applications/en/filelight https://kde.org/applications/en/filelight

simcop2387 6y ago
I personally have used k4dirstat, but while finding it's webpage I found out that there's a more modern fork/recreation called qdirstat that doesn't need kde either called qdirstat. https://github.com/shundhammer/qdirstat https://github.com/shundhammer/qdirstat
- Aengeuad 6y ago
  There's also windirstat for windows. https://windirstat.net/ https://windirstat.net/
Heliosmaster 6y ago
Disk Inventory X for MacOS: http://www.derlien.com/ http://www.derlien.com/

Syzygies 6y ago

Duf doesn't understand MacOS APFS volumes. I have two such volumes sharing my primary SSD. For those accustomed to more primitive file systems, one doesn't have to arbitrarily divide a drive into volumes of separate fixed sizes. Volumes on an APFS drive can share pooled free space. My two volumes sharing a drive have separate percentages that look quite healthy, but their combined percentage reveals that I am perilously short on space. Duf doesn't know to combine these percentages. DaisyDisk (a wonderful GUI app for managing MacOS disk space) makes the problem clear.

dpedu 6y ago
This issue would be encountered with ZFS too.

ozmaverick72 6y ago

Haven’t tried it yet but the —hide-network option sounds really useful to me. The number of times I’ve been looking for free space on local file system when I have some massive ntfs remote file system mounted and trying to get that excluded from other utilities is a massive pain in the butt.

yamadapc 6y ago

I’ll plug my own fast OSX scanner, though “storage management” got better recently (or I hadn’t noticed when using it initially). https://beijaflor.io/blog/06-2020/filesaver-freeing-up-space/ https://beijaflor.io/blog/06-2020/filesaver-freeing-up-space...

mikecoles 6y ago

xdiskusage has been my go-to when using a gui. Package info from Debian: https://packages.debian.org/sid/x11/xdiskusage https://packages.debian.org/sid/x11/xdiskusage