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I like "ncdu", a TUI equivalent for Unixy systems. Although I learned the hard way that if you run it on a Mac home folder, and have iCloud's "optimize Mac sto

I like "ncdu", a TUI equivalent for Unixy systems. Although I learned the hard way that if you run it on a Mac home folder, and have iCloud's "optimize Mac storage" turned on, macOS will suddenly try to download literally everything in your iCloud storage to try to count the size of it, probably filling your disk. Oops.

user3939382 2y ago
DaisyDisk is an awesome macOS GUI version of this app
- ck45 2y ago
  I’m still using the free OmniDiskSweeper from the legendary OmniGroup
  - vetinari 2y ago
    When mentioning ancient utilities, I'm still on Disk Inventory X.
angch 2y ago
There's also "diskonaut", a TUI which displays the output like the treemap of WinDirStat. Bonus is that the display is incremental and updates as it scans everything, so you don't need to wait for the complete scan to see how everything looks like. Written in Rust, and it's a `cargo install diskonaut` away if you have the rust toolchain installed.
arcanemachiner 2y ago
I switched to gdu a couple years back for reasons that I do not remember. I think it is faster or something.
qwertox 2y ago
`ncdu` has the `-x` flag which means that "Only count files and directories on the same filesystem as the specified dir.". Maybe that could help.
- LeoPanthera 2y ago
  Sadly it does not help, the files appear to be normal files in the same filesystem, macOS simply does magic behind the scenes. You have to manually tell ncdu not to scan the ~/Library/Mobile Documents directory.
xxpor 2y ago
don't execute a (space taking) write operation when the user requests a read seems to be a reasonable rule for most things.
wonger_ 2y ago
I'm a big fan of godu: https://github.com/viktomas/godu https://github.com/viktomas/godu
nickcw 2y ago
You can use `rclone ncdu` to work in a very similar way on any cloud storage that rclone supports https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_ncdu/ https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_ncdu/ I love ncdu and this is my homage to it!
jowea 2y ago
If you want it RIIR there dua: https://github.com/Byron/dua-cli https://github.com/Byron/dua-cli

user3939382 2y ago

DaisyDisk is an awesome macOS GUI version of this app

ck45 2y ago
I’m still using the free OmniDiskSweeper from the legendary OmniGroup
- vetinari 2y ago
  When mentioning ancient utilities, I'm still on Disk Inventory X.

angch 2y ago

There's also "diskonaut", a TUI which displays the output like the treemap of WinDirStat. Bonus is that the display is incremental and updates as it scans everything, so you don't need to wait for the complete scan to see how everything looks like. Written in Rust, and it's a `cargo install diskonaut` away if you have the rust toolchain installed.

arcanemachiner 2y ago

I switched to gdu a couple years back for reasons that I do not remember. I think it is faster or something.

qwertox 2y ago

`ncdu` has the `-x` flag which means that "Only count files and directories on the same filesystem as the specified dir.". Maybe that could help.

LeoPanthera 2y ago
Sadly it does not help, the files appear to be normal files in the same filesystem, macOS simply does magic behind the scenes. You have to manually tell ncdu not to scan the ~/Library/Mobile Documents directory.

xxpor 2y ago

don't execute a (space taking) write operation when the user requests a read seems to be a reasonable rule for most things.

wonger_ 2y ago

I'm a big fan of godu: https://github.com/viktomas/godu https://github.com/viktomas/godu

nickcw 2y ago

You can use `rclone ncdu` to work in a very similar way on any cloud storage that rclone supports https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_ncdu/ https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_ncdu/ I love ncdu and this is my homage to it!

jowea 2y ago

If you want it RIIR there dua: https://github.com/Byron/dua-cli https://github.com/Byron/dua-cli