58 points by patonw 6 hours ago | 14 comments
1970-01-01 2 hours ago
This is the kind of tool that should be baked into the kernel. It's never there when you need it, and when you do need it, it is probably already a full disk and you maybe can't just download it.
KaiserPro 2 hours ago
Ooo a TUI version of Sequoia view: https://sequoiaview.win.tue.nl/ nice
patwolf 1 hour ago
I've been using Sequoia View regularly since the early 2000s, and it's held up amazingly well considering how much bigger hard drives have gotten in the past 25 years.
dbdoskey 55 minutes ago
There is also dua-cli or mcdu, if someone prefers a ncdu-style disk usage visualizer.
ktm5j 3 hours ago
This is super cool, I've always used ncdu for this kinda thing but I like this a lot better. Thanks for sharing!
takencoder 3 hours ago
Nice! The file-type extension partitioning feature is a really smart addition to handle the limitations of block characters.
vadansky 1 hour ago
Surprised no one mentioned WizTree which is a lot faster than WinDirStat
password4321 4 minutes ago
WizTree is no longer free for commercial use; bummer because it's really fast for NTFS.
lookeey 1 hour ago
actually IIRC WinDirStat v2, which was launched recently, uses the same approach as WizTree, being just as fast
bescob_ar 5 hours ago
This looks fantastic, reminds me a lot of SpaceSniffer. The focus view or allowing for navigation through chunks is a nice essential inclusion. One desire might be quick actions. Doing size of squares based on the # of packages a dependency installation causes: Helps I guess users hellbent on having their install minimal figure out what they can afford to remove for as few packages on their system as reasonably possible.
patonw 3 hours ago
Thanks! I'll need to check out SpaceSniffer next time I'm on Windows.

Can you provide some examples of "quick actions"?

Currently, the visualization is purely based on file sizes in the directory structure. Package management adds some complications beyond the fact that there are at least a dozen popular managers in the wild. For one, package dependencies form a directed graph rather than a hierarchical tree, so credit assignment is vague. Two packages can depend on the same two dependencies. Do we give full credit to both, one or assign partial credit? Would we weight partial credit evenly or by dependent size or some external factor/

rrauenza 3 hours ago
I had just been looking for a windirstat like tool for linux the other day.

What I really also want is a way to do an offline index that this reads ... I ended up using duc. Maybe I will fork and add it!

thanks for sharing!

patonw 2 hours ago
no problem!

I had been exploring using an embedded database as an index, but for my current use case, waiting just under a minute to rescan my /nix/store on a weak mini-pc is acceptable.

Also looking to add inotify integration, which would require an index to accurately update the visualization.

sghiassy 4 hours ago
Really cool.

If possible, being able to “brew install” on a Mac would be killer

douglee650 2 hours ago
Is this faster than diskx inventory or other gui tools?
azeirah 3 hours ago
Love it! If this works well I'm going to add it to my basic linux tools toolkit next to htop and the like.
robertclaus 4 hours ago
Ooh, this is nice. I loved windirstat back in the day.
codingstark 1 hour ago
this is really helpfull
gorkemyildirim 3 hours ago
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