[xubuntu-users] showing disk space used

[Petter Adsen]

On Fri, 13 May 2016 11:55:23 -0700
"John R. Sowden" <jsowden at americansentry.net> wrote:

> correction of version.  this is not a message from the future :)
> 
> On 05/13/2016 11:51 AM, John R. Sowden wrote:
> > There is a program in DOS called hog.  It shows me the amount of
> > disk space consumed by each of the current directory's
> > subdirectories in a pie chart with different colors.  I can
> > instantly see where I am consuming disk space. Is there something
> > like that for Linux?  I use Ubuntu 14.04.
> >
> > If not, is there a way of displaying directory's consumed disk
> > space in Thunar?

In addition to 'du', there is ncurses-based 'ncdu' for a prettier
output.

Petter

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