[HN Gopher] Duf: Disk Usage/Free Utility
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       Duf: Disk Usage/Free Utility
        
       Author : kiyanwang
       Score  : 99 points
       Date   : 2020-09-27 07:00 UTC (8 hours ago)
        
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       | nayuki wrote:
       | Your program looks nice for a text-based UI. However, I think
       | existing graphical tools are more powerful, especially when
       | displaying a treemap visualization. Examples:
       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_utility#Disk_space_analyz...
        
         | [deleted]
        
       | someperson wrote:
       | For a CLI alternative to manually running `du -sh *` recursively
       | to try and find which directory is taking up your space I
       | recommend `ncdu`.
       | 
       | I'm pretty sure there was a similar CLI app better than `ncdu`
       | but I don't recall it right now.
        
         | zevv wrote:
         | There is also Duc: https://duc.zevv.nl/. It has a both a Tui
         | and a Gui, but can also do nifty CGI things (shameless plug)
        
         | unhammer wrote:
         | baobab is a nice GUI alternative that has similar graphs to
         | duc, except I can never remember the name =P (fortunately it
         | shows up when I search the "start menu" for "usage")
         | 
         | https://wiki.gnome.org/action/show/Apps/DiskUsageAnalyzer
        
       | walrus01 wrote:
       | I wonder if this entire thing could be built into 'glances' as an
       | alternate pane view.
       | 
       | https://nicolargo.github.io/glances/
        
         | tmd83 wrote:
         | Is there anything similar to glances that's native, super
         | light. Don't have python in all production server and I wonder
         | how weighty it would be when things are getting haywire .. or
         | am I wrong and glances is lightweight enough?
        
           | nitinreddy88 wrote:
           | Try bashtop
           | 
           | I dont prefer glances because of its dependencies of python
           | and i really avoid installing big dependencies unless I feel
           | its required for most of the other packages/use cases.
        
       | surfsvammel wrote:
       | I like it! Might have a go at rewriting something like this in
       | Rust as an exercise.
        
         | paledot wrote:
         | Sounds like fun! Drop me a message if you get it going and want
         | a collaborator.
        
         | ComputerGuru wrote:
         | Already done, (un)fortunately:
         | 
         | https://github.com/bootandy/dust
        
           | tleb_ wrote:
           | Duf seems close to `df` while dust seems closer to `du`.
        
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