Disk Usage Analyser

General Discussion
#1

I have limited / disk space, and due to excessively big log files from certain apps, I sometimes run out of diskspace. To solve this, I’ve redirected the log folders to a network NAS device, which works great. However when any upgrades occur to the OS or apps, they default back to the /* drive and cause out of space issues (even with ln, etc.)

Using du isn’t exactly easy, when one has extremely large network drvices at /mnt and various ln’s in the OS (even when using --exclude=).

I was looking around for a GUI Disk analyser solution and found baobab, install it and it works great as a GUI.

I was wondering if there are any other dietpi solutions around, other than du, to quickly and easily analyse disk space/usage per folder?

Thanks

#2

Do you have a GUI or just CLI?

I did a quick duckduckgo and found this for CLI
https://www.tecmint.com/dutree-analyze-disk-usage-in-linux/

Came from this
https://www.how2shout.com/tools/best-disk-usage-analyzer-tools-for-linux-system.html

#3

DietPi is not offering such graphical tool. But you could use a simple CLI command to get the 20 largest files.

du -a / --exclude /mnt/<whatever> | sort -n -r | head -n 20

I recommend to exclude external disk or network shares to get local files only

#4

Use ncdu
https://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdu

To install login to DietPi
run this command
sudo apt install ncdu

#5

nice…thanks