What disk space usage software are you using?

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.

19 points | by shirosai 2052 days ago

25 comments

  • mhh__ 2051 days 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)
  • joezydeco 2052 days ago
    WinDirStat on Windows, Grand Perspective on OSX.
  • ch_sm 2052 days 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.
  • HocusLocus 2051 days 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.
  • prepend 2052 days ago
    Windirstat (windows, gpl) disinventoryx (OS X, gpl), du
  • shirosai 2052 days ago
    Here is a clickable link for anyone interested in checking out diskover https://shirosaidev.github.io/diskover
    • acutesoftware 2051 days ago
      That looks pretty cool - are those video effects or is it really showing files writing to different files?
      • shirosai 2050 days 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.
  • erodommoc 2052 days ago
    Treesize (https://www.jam-software.com/treesize_free/) is a great one for Windows.
  • devxpy 2052 days ago
    Filelight, comes default on kde. It's freaking amazing.
    • BenjiWiebe 2052 days ago
      I've even been using it on Windows. Love it!
  • shirosai 2051 days 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?
  • SigmundA 2052 days ago
  • JimmyAustin 2052 days ago
    For Windows: http://www.steffengerlach.de/freeware/ For Mac OS: DaisyDisk
  • jaclaz 2052 days ago
    Do not forget good ol' Sequoia View (Windows) :

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

  • Multicomp 2052 days ago
    WizTree on Windows. Way faster on NTFS than WinDirStat.
  • shirosai 2052 days ago
    Anyone managing nas/san storage? Curious what you are using to manage disk space on these storage systems with many TB/PB.
  • joshstrange 2052 days ago
    DaisyDisk on my Macbook but ncdu (Ncurses interface for du that is AMAZING) is great for everything else.
  • aiCeivi9 2052 days ago
    WinDirStat / Baobab
  • dewey 2051 days ago
    ncdu, it’s great to spot big files taking up space and you can directly delete files with a single button.
  • 0942v8653 2052 days ago
    ncdu, df, du
  • Jemm 2052 days ago
    Disk Inventory X for Mac
  • remlov 2052 days ago
    WinDirStat and Baobab.
  • provolone 2051 days ago
    df
  • jtchang 2051 days ago
    DaisyDisk
  • hkri 2052 days ago
    DaisyDisk
  • foxyv 2049 days ago
    du -sh * | sort -h
  • curiousgal 2052 days ago
    ncdu