NCDU

Ncdu (opens new window) is a disk usage analyzer with an ncurses interface. It is designed to find space hogs on a remote server where you don't have an entire graphical setup available, but it is a useful tool even on regular desktop systems. Ncdu aims to be fast, simple and easy to use, and should be able to run in any minimal POSIX-like environment with ncurses installed.

Linux

Install ncdu using the following command:

sudo apt install ncdu

Usage

To start ncdu, simply run in the directory that you want to analyze:

ncdu

To analyze root volume (/) you can use ncdu with -x parameter. This helps to exclude other volumes mounted in the system, which are not taking space on root volume:

ncdu -x /

If you want to analyze disk usage on other volume you can use this example:

ncdu -x /mnt/archive