Re:SpaceMonger
by shireboy on Saturday August 06, 2022 @05:56PM
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Windirstat is similar and my go-to for this on PC. Is there a similar Mac/Linux app?
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I use Baobab on Linux. It appears to support MacOS as well.
I've used duc on Linux for a while. Can recommend.
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.
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.
DaisyDisk on macOS https://daisydiskapp.com/
Re:SpaceMonger
by johnchristopher on Saturday August 06, 2022 @06:03PM
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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.
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
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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
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Yes, GrandPerspective is a visual file space tool for Mac OS http://grandperspectiv.sourceforge.net/
OmniDiskSweeper on mac: https://www.omnigroup.com/more
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
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I use DaisyDisk for my Macs and WizTree for Windows
I often type
du -ax / | xdu -n -c 9
Re:SpaceMonger
by seanalltogether on Sunday August 07, 2022 @05:51AM
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Re:SpaceMonger
by mike_richards on Saturday August 06, 2022 @07:42PM
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qdirstat is the Linux equivalent. https://github.com/shundhammer/qdirstat
qdirstat - https://github.com/shundhammer/qdirstat