Disk Usage Analyzer for Linux

[blazemonkey]

Hi, I'm looking for something similar to windirstat that I can run on my headless debian box. I know of the du program, but I'd like to get a better visual of all the data. Any ideas?

 

[jb_hafo]

philesight...

 

[blazemonkey]

philesight...

That looks good, i think i might play around with it later. in the meantime, i stumbled across ncdu which works well for me too.

 

[/dev/null]

What is windirstat?

In any case, I find df or du quite informative.

 

[LightningCrash]

Hi, I'm looking for something similar to windirstat that I can run on my headless debian box. I know of the du program, but I'd like to get a better visual of all the data. Any ideas?

baobab does a pie-chart thing. Might be worth looking into.

I find myself repeatedly doing

du -m --max-depth=1|sort -n

to the point where I alias it to `dums` on many machines.

 

[HHunt]

There's a surprisingly large and informative overview here, including the konqueror view mode (that I've been missing since kde3), and a rather nice ncurses-based one.

 

[blazemonkey]

What is windirstat?

In any case, I find df or du quite informative.

Windirstat is a win32 disk usage analyzer, it's pretty great.

I find du to be too much work, no option to show hidden files, sorting, etc. I could make all that happen with a bash script, but i was hoping someone else beat me to it.

 

[HHunt]

Windirstat is a win32 disk usage analyzer, it's pretty great.

I find du to be too much work, no option to show hidden files, sorting, etc. I could make all that happen with a bash script, but i was hoping someone else beat me to it.

Try ncdu, it's rather neat.

 

[blazemonkey]

Try ncdu, it's rather neat.

It's what I ended up using, iirc, it was included by default with squeeze.