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AltWinDirStat
- rkunde 5y agoI like ncdu for cleaning up from the command line
- nickcw 5y agoI implemented an ncdu clone as an rclone subcommand as I love ncdu so much: https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_ncdu/ https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_ncdu/ This means that rclone ncdu runs locally and on your favourite cloud storage. It also runs on Windows, macOS, Linux!
- theandrewbailey 5y agoFork of WinDirStat, a disk usage analysis tool for Windows: https://windirstat.net/ https://windirstat.net/
- LordDragonfang 5y agoWhich itself is a Windows port of the linux utility KDirStat (Which itself has been superseded on most linuxes by QDirStat)
- teddyh 5y agoOther alternatives: • du | xdu • filelight
- kashkhan 5y agoncdu when you don't have x
- thecosmicfrog 5y ago+1 for `ncdu`. One of my favourite tools.
- hashhar 5y agoI even prefer ncdu even if I have X. It's just that good.
- frameset 5y agoThanks for letting me know about this, what a handy utility.
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- kiwijamo 5y agoGNOME comes with a useful utility which does that as well called Disk Usage Analyser. Usually installed by default via the gnome package on many distros.
- stragies 5y agoWith a binary name of `baobab`. I always wondered, what the mnemonic here was/is.
- genjipress 5y agoI'm a big fan of the original project, so I'm curious what the changes amount to. (It claims there are performance improvements, but nothing detailed.)
- yarone 5y agoMe too, been using it for 10 years.
- Goz3rr 5y agoA long time ago I switched to WizTree, which does the same thing except it basically only takes ~5 seconds to do it for an entire drive.
- zaroth 5y agoBy using cached NTFS metadata instead of actually querying the allocation tables I presume?
- dspillett 5y agoYep. Their related product wizfile uses the same trick for fast search by filename/path. Obviously doesn't work for non-local file locations.
- gregoryl 5y agoWizTree cheats (in a good way) and uses the NTFS MFT to find files. Another tool "Everything" uses the same idea, to search for file names etc in an absurdly fast manner.
- kashkhan 5y agoI miss Everything on MacOS
- cloogshicer 5y agoThere is HoudahSpot. Not free though.
- IE6 5y agoSome may find this interesting: https://github.com/ariccio/altWinDirStat/issues/4 https://github.com/ariccio/altWinDirStat/issues/4
- xeromal 5y agoThanks for sharing! What a fun read!
- humbleharbinger 5y agoA fun read indeed. I wonder about the insistence on keeping it less than 20k loc? Is that the developer basically saying "this problem can and should be solved in less than 20k lines?"
- Cthulhu_ 5y agoLooks like it; the author also says he sticks to certain paradigms like an indentation style I've not seen in the wild before and making as many things as possible 'const'. I don't mind, I can respect people having Strong Opinions, it's an improvement over having too weak opinions which lead to inconsistencies in a codebase.
- chris37879 5y agoI'm guilty of the const / final thing... it really does help in the language I use for work all the time, but that's because its compiler and analyzer are built around using those hints to do static analysis in my editor.
- Arainach 5y agoThe author's views on code seem rather opinionated in general. Their thoughts on internationalization in particular go against all best practices in the pursuit of clean code dogma: https://github.com/ariccio/altWinDirStat/tree/master/WinDirStat https://github.com/ariccio/altWinDirStat/tree/master/WinDirS... I'm amused that the author rants about the importance of being able to easily analyze code and then wants to produce (presumably) a different binary per language to analyze all over. Their commit messages are also rather colorful. This is an interesting project, but seemingly not someone I'd enjoy working with.
- user3939382 5y agoThere’s an amazing tool for this on Mac called DaisyDisk. It’s one of my all-time favorite Mac apps.
- Nicksil 5y agohttps://daisydiskapp.com/ https://daisydiskapp.com/
- Cockbrand 5y agoDaisyDisk is very polished and nice, but I'd like to add GrandPerspective [1] to the discussion - it's not as pretty, but it's free and does a very good job as well. If you don't mind spending $9.99, DaisyDisk is definitely worth it, though. [1] https://sourceforge.net/projects/grandperspectiv/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/grandperspectiv/
- lelandbatey 5y agoGrandPerspective is a quite delightful disk space visualizer, and was the app I used to replace the delightful workhorse 'Disk Inventory X'[0] since Disk Inventory X was infrequently updated and would routinely become incompatible on new OS X versions (this was almost 10 years ago). [0] - http://www.derlien.com/ http://www.derlien.com/
- alana314 5y agoDasiyDisk is insanely faster than the rest, it can scan my HD in about 30 seconds
- nerdponx 5y agoI guess is this the subthread where we list other disk space analyzer tools. I've been using TreeSize Free/Pro on Windows since as long as I can remember. Solid program, nice "old school" interface that I really enjoy using. Not open source, but worth paying for.
- Melatonic 5y agoYea TreeSize is great - I may have to check out this new one though I do wonder how they compare because I always found ( I think? ) TreeSize to be much faster than WinDirStat
- chaxor 5y agoI always liked diskonaut, since I can use it anywhere (remote computer ssh is mostly where I live). https://github.com/imsnif/diskonaut https://github.com/imsnif/diskonaut It's in Rust, which I don't code, but it is if anyone cares about such things. It works fast, is easy to use, and looks pretty.
- bravetraveler 5y agoI like it, reminds me a lot of something I used to use with Windows -- SpaceSniffer This might get me to finally stop writing so many loops, but getting this on servers at work might be questionable :D
- dijit 5y agoI’m going to guess that AltWinDirStat is much faster as the readme references several windows specific performance improvements. Commenting though to thank you for bringing Diskonaught into my life. FWIW I have been using ncdu for this purpose for many years, I like it, but diskonaught looks like a solid improvement.
- R0b0t1 5y agoWhere's the improvements list? I can't see it.
- julianh95 5y agoHow are you using it over SSH? :)
- alanbernstein 5y agoLooks great, thanks for sharing.
- scott_paul 5y agoAnyone else amused just reading the commit comments?
- mappu 5y agoAt $DAYJOB all the commits have a particular uniform format and are quite restrained and professional. I wouldn't say 'amused' but I agree with you, it did bring me a smile to see this person showing their humanity in their side project, especially in such a deep technical context.
- alanbernstein 5y agoShameful self-plug for a small project that I stopped improving as soon as it became useful for me: https://github.com/alanbernstein/treemonger https://github.com/alanbernstein/treemonger The subdivision algorithm and display style are intended to mimic the old version of spacemonger. For whatever reason, that was always my favorite way of visualizing disk space, and I wanted to use something similar on Linux. I wanted to replace the Tk renderer with an SVG one using SMIL [1],but got discouraged when I learned it was deprecated. Looking it up just now, I see that the deprecation is apparently suspended, so maybe I'll get around to that after all... [1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/SVG/SVG_animation_with_SMIL https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/SVG/SVG_animati...
- worewood 5y agoThe only one that worked well for me on Windows is SpaceSniffer. It correctly treated symlinks and junctions (most tools duplicate those) and alternate data streams (which most tools ignore).
- Semaphor 5y agoNo idea about ADS, but junctions work exactly as they should with WizTree [0]. I have junction folders that are bigger than the entirety of C, so with that not working, the tool would have been uselesss. [0]: https://www.diskanalyzer.com/ https://www.diskanalyzer.com/
- holistio 5y ago"AltWinDirStat" could totally be a German town.
- simon04 5y agoFor Windows systems I'm a big fan of this freeware: Scanner.exe (one executable of 478 kB) –http://www.steffengerlach.de/freeware/ http://www.steffengerlach.de/freeware/
- ComodoHacker 5y agoAnd I'm a big fan of SpaceSniffer (http://www.uderzo.it/main_products/space_sniffer/ http://www.uderzo.it/main_products/space_sniffer/) The executable is a bit bigger (950K), but it's very fast, looks nice but not fancy, and gets the job done.
- andrea76 5y agoIs there a such software that can do this on network shared folders?
- smusamashah 5y agoOld SpaceMonger[0] and now SpaceSniffer[1] present a much better visualization of folders while also letting you adjust the granularity of how deep you want to see through. [0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20121126062443/http://www.sixty-five.cc/sm/v1x.php https://web.archive.org/web/20121126062443/http://www.sixty-... [1]: http://www.uderzo.it/main_products/space_sniffer/index.html http://www.uderzo.it/main_products/space_sniffer/index.html
- aquir 5y agoI second SpaceSniffer...it's not actively developed any more :(
- binaryman1 5y agoI am a big fan of: Directory Report It is faster than WinDirStat, and Can create more reports too