What disk space usage software are you using?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18064268

by shirosai • 8 years ago

19 30 8 years ago

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What are you using for viewing and managing disk space usage? I'm developing diskover file system crawler ( https://shirosaidev.github.io/diskover ) and was curious what everyone is currently using.

curiousgal• 8 years ago

ncdu

0942v8653• 8 years ago

ncdu, df, du

prepend• 8 years ago

Windirstat (windows, gpl) disinventoryx (OS X, gpl), du

erodommoc• 8 years ago

Treesize (https://www.jam-software.com/treesize_free/) is a great one for Windows.

ch_sm• 8 years ago

I‘m on a Mac and I like DaisyDisk. The built-in one (in About this Mac) is sometimes good enough for finding useless large files.

Jemm• 8 years ago

Disk Inventory X for Mac

SigmundA• 8 years ago

Space sniffer on Windows: http://www.uderzo.it/main_products/space_sniffer/

JimmyAustin• 8 years ago

For Windows: http://www.steffengerlach.de/freeware/ For Mac OS: DaisyDisk

hkri• 8 years ago

DaisyDisk

aiCeivi9• 8 years ago

WinDirStat / Baobab

jaclaz• 8 years ago

Do not forget good ol' Sequoia View (Windows) :

http://www.win.tue.nl/sequoiaview/

shirosai4• 8 years ago

Anyone managing nas/san storage? Curious what you are using to manage disk space on these storage systems with many TB/PB.

shirosai4• 8 years ago

Here is a clickable link for anyone interested in checking out diskover https://shirosaidev.github.io/diskover

acutesoftware• 8 years ago

That looks pretty cool - are those video effects or is it really showing files writing to different files?

shirosai4• 8 years ago

The videos are realtime crawl using gource for visualizing the bots scraping the meta from files when they enter into directories. It pulls the crawl times/worker names from elasticsearch and visualizes it in gource. diskover has cli args for outputing to gource.

joshstrange• 8 years ago

DaisyDisk on my Macbook but ncdu (Ncurses interface for du that is AMAZING) is great for everything else.

joezydeco• 8 years ago

WinDirStat on Windows, Grand Perspective on OSX.

gesman• 8 years ago

devxpy• 8 years ago

Filelight, comes default on kde. It's freaking amazing.

BenjiWiebe• 8 years ago

I've even been using it on Windows. Love it!

Multicomp• 8 years ago

WizTree on Windows. Way faster on NTFS than WinDirStat.

chefkoch• 8 years ago

free and fast

remlov• 8 years ago

WinDirStat and Baobab.

jtchang• 8 years ago

DaisyDisk

HocusLocus• 8 years ago

For major cleanup in Windows, spotting file bloat in unexpected/temp places, SpaceMonger: https://spacemonger.en.softonic.com/ Rectangles are cool. (approximate) rect area based on nested folder size is cool. Smoothly zoomable regions with the mousewheel is cool. Their grabbing of colors from a simple pastel palette that guarantees that black text is crisply legible is cool. Having individual file details appear as screen real estate allowsm but for large files right away, is cool. Despite being a non-cacheing scanner for each run SM helps you spend time budgeted for cleanup most efficiently as possible.

shirosai4• 8 years ago

These are all good for osx/windows scanning your local attached disk, but what about nas/san storage and crawling over nfs/cifs? Are any server based (run on server)? Do any have web file management/search ability?

dewey• 8 years ago

ncdu, it’s great to spot big files taking up space and you can directly delete files with a single button.

provolone• 8 years ago

mhh__• 8 years ago

WinDirStat is really great for windows. Not sure how fast it is relative to it's competition but it's fast enough and is intuitive (graphical representation is pretty good)

foxyv• 8 years ago

du -sh * | sort -h

What disk space usage software are you using?

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