Alternatives to diskus
Measure the total size of a directory from the command line. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
diskus
Measure the total size of a directory from the command line.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as diskus.
Dust
See which directories consume space in a compact terminal tree.
Dust shows a tree of directory sizes with bars rather than only a single total, and is licensed under Apache-2.0 for Windows, macOS and Linux.
gdu
Find large directories with a terminal disk-usage analyzer.
gdu adds an interactive terminal interface for inspecting directory sizes, with parallel scans on Windows, macOS and Linux under the MIT licence.
dua-cli
Explore disk usage and remove unwanted files in the terminal.
dua-cli adds interactive navigation and optional file deletion to directory size measurement, running on Windows, macOS and Linux under the MIT licence.
ncdu
A disk usage analyser with a text interface, built for finding what is filling a remote server you can only reach over SSH.
ncdu provides an interactive text browser of directory sizes with deletion, built for SSH servers, but offers no Windows build.
pdu (parallel-disk-usage)
A command-line directory tree analyzer that measures disk usage in parallel and prints a size chart.
pdu is a free, open-source command-line analyzer that also scans in parallel and prints a size chart of the directory tree instead of one total.
godu
An interactive terminal utility written in Go for finding the files and folders filling a disk.
godu is a free, open-source Go terminal utility for interactively browsing disk usage on macOS and Linux, rather than printing a directory total.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
duf
Shows disk usage and free space in a readable coloured table.
dysk
List filesystem capacity in configurable terminal tables.
Disk Usage Analyzer
A GNOME app that shows which folders are using disk space, as a tree and chart.
WinDirStat
Draws your whole drive as a treemap, so a single 40 GB file is a huge rectangle you cannot miss.
QDirStat
A Qt-based graphical disk usage analyser with a directory tree and treemap view.
