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what is the best disk space explorer utility for linux?
I want to see folder wise size graphically, which folder has taken how much disk space.
shahjapan
Posted 2010-03-26T04:49:08.357
Reputation: 521
best Graphical disk space explorer utility for Ubuntu?
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Personally I like KDirStat.
davr
Posted 2010-03-26T04:49:08.357
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Does the job ^-^. Running on gnome desktop the application used its KDE standards instead of trying to use my gnome equivalents. Though whadayaexpect. Great app for the job so long as Baobab doesn't add individual file visualization support. – ThorSummoner – 2014-10-15T23:29:08.597
2Would be perfect, if it didn't want a hundred or two megs of KDE dependencies, not so good if you're not on KDE & don't want all it's stuff, generally counterproductive to increase disk usage that much while trying to reduce disk usage – Xen2050 – 2015-07-13T13:53:38.743
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It has been superseded by QDirStat, which does not depend on KDE.
– Chris Hunt – 2019-01-26T16:35:14.75735
Ubuntu default Disk Usage Analyzer (GNOME)
Ye Lin Aung
Posted 2010-03-26T04:49:08.357
Reputation: 5 444
baobab is awesome! (I wish it had the "delete permanently" option in addition to "move to trash") – pwned – 2017-04-23T18:53:49.617
baobab is painfully slow (unless you have <100k files and lots of time), qdirstat seems to work much better for me. – Mygod – 2019-05-14T13:15:44.943
12Also called Baobab. – Mechanical snail – 2012-07-03T06:46:23.157
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Paused until further notice.
Posted 2010-03-26T04:49:08.357
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4+1 for ncdu, it's very useful when connected to machines via ssh. – Matthias Braun – 2017-03-14T16:49:04.487
Awesome tool, but xdiskusage and specially ncdu – Anwar – 2017-10-28T16:40:23.510
Noe that your filelight link redirects elsewear now. – Douglas Gaskell – 2018-12-21T20:14:48.343
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ncdu will be your friend its command line tool presents graphical presentation of you data structure.
Site reference : https://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdu/man
you can install it using Ubuntu repository
root@slave1:~# apt-get install ncdu
usage :
root@slave1:~# ncdu -x /var/jenkins/
Mansur Ali
Posted 2010-03-26T04:49:08.357
Reputation: 171
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– I say Reinstate Monica – 2017-12-28T16:02:42.697
Not to be too pedantic but disk space and file usage can be quite different. Baobab, one of the answers, shows files under the root '/' and has no concept of multiple disks or free space. Something like gparted is good at showing overall disk stats but is useless for lower level detail. WinDirStat, and I assume KDirStat, show both disk based and file based information. – AnnanFay – 2015-04-06T12:54:43.540