Find large files in Linux

[crosscourt]

More here, www.lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_link.php?rid=264704

[dai_trying]

I prefer to use ncdu to find large files, it gives a pretty good sized tree structure which makes looking for space-hogs a little easier.

[tlmiller]

I actually use k4dirstat/qdirstat most of the time. I know, how dare I use gui apps.

[crosscourt]

Im the same tlmiller as i prefer GUI most of the time.

[dai_trying]

Just installed kdirstat-trinity on Q4OS and that looks very similar so might start using that too, it actually seemed to load quicker than ncdu in terminal!

[tlmiller]

They're all just clones of windirstat.

Mostly k4dirstat sucks on anything other than KDE because rather than being built on QT toolkit, it was built against KDE, so it requires HUGE amounts of KDE libraries even if you don't have KDE. Qdirstat is it's replacement, that's been properly built only to require QT, not the full KDE. It also seems a bit faster. But some distro's don't have it available yet. Kdirstat-trinity was the old version of kdirstat that also was faster, but required qt3 (obvoisly).