NCurses Disk Usage

As the name already suggests, ncdu is an NCurses version of the famous old 'du' unix command.

NCurses Disk Usage provides a fast and easy interface to your harddrive. Where is your disk space going? Why is your home directory that large? ncdu can answer those questions for you in just a matter of seconds!

Installation:

Installing ncdu is quite straightforward:

· wget http://dev.yorhel.nl/download/ncdu-0.2.tar.gz
· tar -xzf ncdu-0.2.tar.gz
· cd ncdu-0.2
· ./configure
· make
· src/ncdu # If you want to try ncdu before installing
· make stall

What is new in this release:

• Added 'c' key to display item counts
• Added 'C' key to order by item counts
• Added CACHEDIR.TAG support and --exclude-caches option
• Use locale-dependent thousand separator
• Use pkg-config to detect ncurses
• Clip file/dir sizes to 8 EiB minus one byte
• Fix buffer overflow when formatting huge file sizes

What is new in version 1.9:

• Added option to dump scanned directory information to a file (-o)
• Added option to load scanned directory information from a file (-f)
• Added multiple scan and load interfaces (-0,-1,-2)
• Fit loading and error windows to the terminal width (#13)
• Fix symlink resolving bug (#18)
• Fix path display when scanning an empty directory (#15)
• Fix hang when terminal is resized to a too small size while loading
• Use top-level automake build
• Remove useless AUTHORS, INSTALL and NEWS files
• ncdu.1 now uses POD as source format

What is new in version 1.8:

• Use hash table to speed up hard link detection
• Added read-only option (-r)
• Use KiB instead of kiB (#3399279

What is new in version 1.7:

• List the detected hard links in file info window
• Count the size of a hard linked file once for each directory it appears in
• Fixed crash on browsing dirs with a small window size (#2991787)
• Fixed buffer overflow when some directories can't be scanned (#2981704)
• Fixed segfault when launched on a nonexistant directory (#3012787)
• Fixed segfault when root dir only contains hidden files
• Improved browsing performance
• More intuitive multi-page browsing
• Display size graph by default
• Various minor fixes

What is new in version 1.6:

• Implemented hard link detection
• Properly select the next item after deletion
• Removed reliance of dirfd()
• Fixed non-void return in void delete_process()
• Fixed several tiny memory leaks
• Return to previously opened directory on failed recalculation
• Properly display MiB units instead of MB (IEEE 1541 - bug #2831412)
• Link to ncursesw when available
• Improved support for non-ASCII characters
• VIM keybindings for browsing through the tree (#2788249, #1880622)

What is new in version 1.5:

• Fixed incorrect apparent size on directory refresh
• Browsing keys now work while file info window is displayed
• Current directory is assumed when no directory is specified
• Size graph uses the apparent size if that is displayed
• Items are ordered by displayed size rather than disk usage
• Removed switching between powers of 1000/1024
• Don't rely on the availability of suseconds_t
• Correctly handle paths longer than PATH_MAX
• Fixed various bugs related to rpath()
• Major code rewrite
• Fixed line width when displaying 100%

What is new in version 1.4:

• The obsolete startup window was removed.
• Filenames ending with a tidle are now considered as "hidden".
• Several bugs and portability issues were fixed.

Requirements:

• NCurses