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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 th

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
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ape4 6y ago
I use `ncdu --color dark` for pretty colors.
kurlberg 6y ago
Another option is du | sort -n (I've got it aliased to "dun".)
- buzzwordninja 6y ago
  Or human readable. This is what I usually use: du -sh * | sort -h
  - makapuf 6y ago
    Wow thanks for sort -h (sorting by human representation, 2M>150k) gnu tools never cease to amaze me.
  - kurlberg 6y ago
    Thanks! I've got a new alias cut out for me: duh! :-)
weaksauce 6y ago
i have an alias that shows each folder in the current directory humanized... might have been slightly modified from one where i got it to work on macos. duf == disk utilization folders. a caveat is that it can be a bit slow if there are a lot of files/subdirectories. alias duf='du -sk * | sort -n | perl -ne '\''($s,$f)=split(m{\t});for (qw(K M G)) {if($s<1024) {printf("%.1f",$s);print "$_\t$f"; last};$s=$s/1024}'\'
- DavideNL 6y ago
  What's the difference vs: du --max-depth=1 -h | gsort -h
  - weaksauce 6y ago
    for one it works on osx... i don't know about the output. that said there are many ways to do something
nextaccountic 6y ago
also dust https://github.com/bootandy/dust https://github.com/bootandy/dust
fomine3 6y ago
`rclone ncdu` for cloud storages.

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.

kurlberg 6y ago

Another option is du | sort -n (I've got it aliased to "dun".)

buzzwordninja 6y ago
Or human readable. This is what I usually use: du -sh * | sort -h
- makapuf 6y ago
  Wow thanks for sort -h (sorting by human representation, 2M>150k) gnu tools never cease to amaze me.
- kurlberg 6y ago
  Thanks! I've got a new alias cut out for me: duh! :-)

weaksauce 6y ago

i have an alias that shows each folder in the current directory humanized... might have been slightly modified from one where i got it to work on macos. duf == disk utilization folders. a caveat is that it can be a bit slow if there are a lot of files/subdirectories. alias duf='du -sk * | sort -n | perl -ne '\''($s,$f)=split(m{\t});for (qw(K M G)) {if($s<1024) {printf("%.1f",$s);print "$_\t$f"; last};$s=$s/1024}'\'

DavideNL 6y ago
What's the difference vs: du --max-depth=1 -h | gsort -h
- weaksauce 6y ago
  for one it works on osx... i don't know about the output. that said there are many ways to do something

nextaccountic 6y ago

also dust https://github.com/bootandy/dust https://github.com/bootandy/dust

fomine3 6y ago

`rclone ncdu` for cloud storages.