And that's all, I'm happy since I was out of space.
I use gdu personally
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I'm here to promote fclones. I've used it twice and recovered over a terabyte on my NAS the last time I used it. I'm not affiliated. Hyperspace for Mac is similar (but different) and I haven't used it, but it was developed by my favorite nerd podcast host. I'm planning to test it out eventually, but the latest fclones run was only about a month ago, so it doesn't make sense to try it yet.
Fclones is a great tool, but it's for finding duplicate files and replacing them with sym-/hard-/reflinks.
I recommend using the --cache option to make subsequent runs extremely quick.
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Is this a Linux version of windirstat?
There's a more direct version of that, I guess from KDE, called KdirStat.
I hadn't heard of the one in the op. But if I had to guess, it looks like it's a different take on the same idea.
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side note: wiztree performs better on windows than windirstat, radically faster scans
now I feel dirty talking about windows here..
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Those are rookie numbers.
Is there any disk usage tool that allows you to browse the tree while it's still being calculated, prioritizing current directory?
My / is a tmpfs.
There is no state accumulating that I didn't explicitly specify, exactly because I don't want to deal with those kind of chores.
These tools are also useful for finding large files in your home directory. E.g. I've found a large amount of Linux ISOs I didn't need anymore.
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This is why I've set up a ramdisk on ~/.cache and ~/Downloads -- "free" automatic cleanup plus a tad more of performance because why not.
I might do that just to force myself to organize and move files out of downloads.
I don't think you'll need to do that, unless you are planning to download files that are over 4Gb long and/or you are using a potato that has less than 1 Gb of ram.
t. I've set my entire ram into a ramdisk, and the performance actually IMPROVED compared to not setting a ramdisk at all.
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I like Bleachbit but I'll check this out