{"id":33,"date":"2015-06-02T20:19:48","date_gmt":"2015-06-02T20:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iam8up.com\/?p=33"},"modified":"2020-08-17T13:40:03","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T13:40:03","slug":"visualizing-disk-usage-in-linux-clicommand-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iam8up.com\/?p=33","title":{"rendered":"Visualizing disk usage in Linux &#8211; CLI\/command line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/gt5.sourceforge.net\/<\/p>\n<p>This project is simply amazing. \u00a0The download includes the binary and other files. \u00a0Simply execute gt5 from where it is extracted or more wisely place it in \/bin\/gt5 so you can run it from anywhere. \u00a0You can specify any directory (ie: gt5 \/).<\/p>\n<p>*stores previously ran information and will show you the different (in bytes)<br \/>\n*very nice easy interface<br \/>\n*largest (percentage) at the top to narrow down where the disk usage is<br \/>\n*runs on nearly any system with included utilities (du for example)<\/p>\n<p>Output is done in HTML and easily shown after parsing with the included tool, again with the simple execution of gt5 \/<\/p>\n<p>It took a bit of digging to find a good program that would work directly in the shell for headless machines. \u00a0This one is simply fantastic.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>EDIT:<br \/>\ngt5 is still pretty good but it&#8217;s not as easy\/fast to get installed.\u00a0 Recently I&#8217;ve been using ncdu thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/unix.stackexchange.com\/questions\/151682\/alternative-command-for-coloured-viewing-the-size-of-all-files-and-folders\">this question\/answer<\/a>.\u00a0 There are CentOS and Debian packages in their repos.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/dev.yorhel.nl\/ncdu\">ncdu homepage<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/gt5.sourceforge.net\/ This project is simply amazing. \u00a0The download includes the binary and other files. \u00a0Simply execute gt5 from where it is extracted or more wisely place it in \/bin\/gt5 so you can run it from anywhere. \u00a0You can specify any directory (ie: gt5 \/). *stores previously ran information and will show you the different (in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iam8up.com\/?p=33\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Visualizing disk usage in Linux &#8211; CLI\/command line&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iam8up.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iam8up.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iam8up.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iam8up.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iam8up.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.iam8up.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70,"href":"https:\/\/www.iam8up.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions\/70"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iam8up.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iam8up.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iam8up.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}