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du
and df
are nice, but I don't know how to filter the data they provide the way I do with SequoiaView. I would like to know which are the largest folders and the largest files in a glance.
99
37
du
and df
are nice, but I don't know how to filter the data they provide the way I do with SequoiaView. I would like to know which are the largest folders and the largest files in a glance.
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You might also want to try the NCurses Disk Usage aka ncdu
.
Use it like ncdu -x -q
if you're invoking it remotely (e. g. via ssh
) and ncdu -x
otherwise.
ncdu 1.6 ~ Use the arrow keys to navigate, press ? for help
--- /home/geek -----------------------------------------------------------------
27.6MiB /qm test 1 rework
312.0kiB /sidebar
88.0kiB /rackerhacker-MySQLTuner-perl-6add618
8.0kiB /.w3m
4.0kiB /.cache
e 4.0kiB /.ssh
160.0kiB ng.tar.gz
76.0kiB plowshare_1~svn1673-1_all.deb
4.0kiB .bashrc
4.0kiB .bash_history
4.0kiB .profile
4.0kiB .htoprc
4.0kiB .bash_logout
0.0 B .lesshst
This is available under Mac OS X too.
The following flags to the command line might be helpful:
-q Quiet mode, doesn't update the screen 10 times a second
while scanning, reduces network bandwidth used
-x Don't cross filesystem borders (don't descend into a
directory which is a mounted disk)
Thanks to Sorin Sbarnea.
1Available under OS X too, via brew. It may be a good idea to call it using ncdu -x -q
– sorin – 2012-12-13T12:46:48.503
1awesome! the best option for me was ncdu -q
, even in ssh. – Valter Silva – 2013-04-19T14:36:38.027
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Use some combination of the commands and options:
du --max-depth=1 2> /dev/null | sort -n -r | head -n20
to view only the largest few. If you'd like to use it a lot, then bind it to an alias, e.g. in bash by adding to ~/.bashrc
alias largest='du --max-depth=1 2> /dev/null | sort -n -r | head -n20'
3You can use sort -h
to sort values with human readable suffixes. – allo – 2015-11-30T15:27:50.703
My modified version of this to display values in human readable format: du -h --max-depth=1 2> /dev/null | sort -h -r
– Jose B – 2015-12-13T22:29:55.813
And for OSX du -d 1 -xh 2> /dev/null | sort -h -r | head -n20
– Samy Bencherif – 2018-12-02T05:21:58.560
2To view the largest few, you need the -r
option on sort. – RedGrittyBrick – 2011-06-22T13:23:59.213
1I submitted @RedGrittyBrick suggestion and an error redirection to /dev/null
as an edit subject to approval. – Jader Dias – 2011-06-22T13:39:43.620
I would also use the du -H
option, but it breaks the sort
behavior – Jader Dias – 2011-06-22T13:54:56.803
What does 2>
do? – jumpnett – 2013-06-05T21:40:28.120
2@jumpnett: it redirects standard error
(in this case into the black hole that is /dev/null
). – Jaap Eldering – 2013-06-06T21:46:57.753
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3
I usually use
du -hsc * | sort -h
What each option means for du
:
The -h
option on sort
makes it understand the -h
format (human readable) on du
. This option is relatively new on sort
, so maybe your system does not support it and forces you to use du -sc | sort -n
instead.
If you do it on a remote machine and the process takes a long time, you probably want to execute this process backgrounded or inside a screen
or something similar to prevent a connection loss.
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I would like to recommend dutree, which offers a hierachical visualization.
You can select more or less levels of detail, and exclude paths for better control of visualization. You can also compare different paths.
It is implemented in Rust, fast and efficient.
$ dutree -h
Usage: dutree [options] <path> [<path>..]
Options:
-d, --depth [DEPTH] show directories up to depth N (def 1)
-a, --aggr [N[KMG]] aggregate smaller than N B/KiB/MiB/GiB (def 1M)
-s, --summary equivalent to -da, or -d1 -a1M
-u, --usage report real disk usage instead of file size
-b, --bytes print sizes in bytes
-f, --files-only skip directories for a fast local overview
-x, --exclude NAME exclude matching files or directories
-H, --no-hidden exclude hidden files
-A, --ascii ASCII characters only, no colors
-h, --help show help
-v, --version print version number
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du -h 2> /dev/null | sort -hr | head -n20
du -h gives a human readable list estimate of disk space with a total
2> /dev/null suppresses any errors such as read access denied
sort -hr sorts the human readable file size in reverse order
head -n20 reduce the list to 20
Be aware that read access denied directories and files are excluded
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To know which are the largest folders and the largest files in a glance, you can also use the command line tool 'Top Disk Usage' (tdu
):
Have you trued
ncdu
? – SDsolar – 2017-09-09T07:44:26.517