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Disk Usage ​

Counting Files ​

find . -type f | wc -l
find . -type f | wc -l

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=linux+show+number+of+files+in+directory&ia=web

ncdu ​

Allows exporting / importing metadata about the scan to a file Helps when doing analysis on large storage arrays.

sudo apt-get install ncdu
sudo apt-get install ncdu

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=ncdu+export+data&ia=software
ncdu export data at DuckDuckGo
https://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdu/jsonfmt
Ncdu Export File Format
https://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdu
NCurses Disk Usage

QDirStat ​

Light-weight installation for visual du

sudo apt-get install qdirstat
sudo apt-get install qdirstat

https://github.com/shundhammer/qdirstat
shundhammer/qdirstat: QDirStat - Qt-based directory statistics (KDirStat without any KDE - from the original KDirStat author)
https://github.com/shundhammer/qdirstat/wiki/disk-usage-tools-compared
disk usage tools compared · shundhammer/qdirstat Wiki
https://github.com/topics/disk-space-analyzer
disk-space-analyzer · GitHub Topics
https://github.com/topics/storage
storage · GitHub Topics
https://github.com/topics/disk-space
disk-space · GitHub Topics
https://github.com/topics/disk-cleaner
disk-cleaner · GitHub Topics
https://github.com/topics/disk-usage
disk-usage · GitHub Topics
https://github.com/topics/du
du · GitHub Topics
https://github.com/topics/filesystem
filesystem · GitHub Topics
https://github.com/muesli/duf
muesli/duf: Disk Usage/Free Utility - a better 'df' alternative
https://github.com/dundee/gdu
dundee/gdu: Fast disk usage analyzer with console interface written in Go
https://github.com/diskoverdata/diskover-community
diskoverdata/diskover-community: Diskover Community Edition - Open source file indexer, file search engine and data management and analytics powered by Elasticsearch
https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=k4dirstat&atb=v343-5ja&ia=software
k4dirstat at DuckDuckGo
https://github.com/jeromerobert/k4dirstat
jeromerobert/k4dirstat: K4DirStat (KDE Directory Statistics) is a small utility program that sums up disk usage for directory trees, very much like the Unix 'du' command. It displays the disk space used up by a directory tree, both numerically and graphically (copied from the Debian package description).
https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=ncdu&atb=v343-5ja&ia=web
ncdu at DuckDuckGo
https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=graphical+ncdu&atb=v343-5ja&ia=web
graphical ncdu at DuckDuckGo
https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=linux+disk+analyzer&atb=v343-5ja&ia=web
linux disk analyzer at DuckDuckGo
https://www.how2shout.com/tools/best-disk-usage-analyzer-tools-for-linux-system.html
Top 10 disk space analyzer tools to use on Linux systems in 2021
https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=qdirstat&atb=v343-5ja&ia=web
qdirstat at DuckDuckGo

Disk Usage Analyzer ​

Disk Usage Analyzer is included by default on Ubuntu. I think that QDirStat's ability to scan files is more efficient than Disk Usage Analyzer

K4DirStat ​

Older version of QDirStat. Requires a much larger installation

visual disk usage utility: http://kdirstat.sourceforge.net/

sudo apt-get install k4dirstat
sudo apt-get install k4dirstat