Analyze Disk Usage With NCurses Disk Usage NCDU

ncdu is a text-mode ncurses-based disk usage analyzer. Useful for when you want to see where all your space is going. For a single flat directory it isn’t more elaborate than an du|sort or some such thing, but this analyzes all directories below the one you specify so space consumed by files inside subdirectories is taken into account. This way you get the full picture. Features: file deletion, file size or size on disk and refresh as contents change. Homepage: http://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdu

Manual :http://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdu/man

Initially if much space is taken up you will have to wait a while while it indexes your files.

This is a ncurses based application that means you have to use the keyboard to make your way around – not a mouse. The keys are fairly easy to learn and there is a very useful help screen should you need it

If you find a file or folder you no longer need while browsing with NCDU you can even delete it on the spot Hopefully you will find this application as useful as I did when a stray log file gets far too large :)