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Re:SpaceMonger by shireboy on Saturday August 06, 2022 @05:56PM (#32371925)
Windirstat is similar and my go-to for this on PC. Is there a similar Mac/Linux app?
Re:SpaceMonger by idbfs on Saturday August 06, 2022 @06:05PM (#32371991)
I use Baobab on Linux. It appears to support MacOS as well.

https://apps.gnome.org/app/org.gnome.baobab/

Re:SpaceMonger by ndom91 on Saturday August 06, 2022 @06:26PM (#32372160)
I've used duc on Linux for a while. Can recommend.

https://duc.zevv.nl/

Re:SpaceMonger by misnome on Saturday August 06, 2022 @08:44PM (#32372864)
And the fact that you can run the indexing and visualization in separate passes is extremely useful, especially for E.g. large network file systems that are slow to index.
Re:SpaceMonger by sliken on Monday August 08, 2022 @01:24PM (#32388395)
I like, I've been working on a faster parallel scanner written in go for the really large filesystems, in my env it's around 10x faster. In any case I find the scan -> database which the client can view quickly very useful.

Also note that there's text based, graphical, and web interfaces to view the database.

Re:SpaceMonger by smcleod on Saturday August 06, 2022 @06:26PM (#32372162)
DaisyDisk on macOS https://daisydiskapp.com/
Re:SpaceMonger by johnchristopher on Saturday August 06, 2022 @06:03PM (#32371982)
Strangely I haven't found yet a tool like spacemonger or spacesniffer for Linux. None have that square layout so ncdu it is.

Edit: I am trying something new here. Usually when I have beeninging complain or ask for help regarding a computer problem for a long time the solution appears in the minute in the comments or in a Google search. Fingers crossed.

Re:SpaceMonger by kej on Saturday August 06, 2022 @06:10PM (#32372026)
QDirstat and K4Dirstat were the ones to use as of a few years ago; I don't know if there's a newer option since then.
Re:SpaceMonger by johnchristopher on Saturday August 06, 2022 @07:04PM (#32372390)
They are still alive but they don't show the folder's names in the squares
Re:SpaceMonger by ccvannorman on Saturday August 06, 2022 @06:02PM (#32371980)
Yes, GrandPerspective is a visual file space tool for Mac OS http://grandperspectiv.sourceforge.net/
Re:SpaceMonger by scosman on Saturday August 06, 2022 @06:27PM (#32372173)
OmniDiskSweeper on mac: https://www.omnigroup.com/more
Re:SpaceMonger by streblo on Sunday August 07, 2022 @07:27AM (#32375655)
GrandPerspective is free and has a lot of feature overlap http://grandperspectiv.sourceforge.net/
Re:SpaceMonger by reiichiroh on Saturday August 06, 2022 @09:45PM (#32373149)
I use DaisyDisk for my Macs and WizTree for Windows
Re:SpaceMonger by teddyh on Saturday August 06, 2022 @06:12PM (#32372036)
I often type

  du -ax / | xdu -n -c 9
Re:SpaceMonger by seanalltogether on Sunday August 07, 2022 @05:51AM (#32375210)
Re:SpaceMonger by mike_richards on Saturday August 06, 2022 @07:42PM (#32372598)
qdirstat is the Linux equivalent. https://github.com/shundhammer/qdirstat
Re:SpaceMonger by orena on Saturday August 06, 2022 @11:15PM (#32373566)