ncdu
No written verdict yet. Here is what commenters said.
5recommend
0warn against
Dec 29, 2025first mention
Jul 17, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“I’ve been using ncdu and WinDirStat for years.”
maintains a shared serveron “Show HN: Leaves – a text-UI disk usage treemap visua…”
“I've used "ncdu" to visualize my restic backups”
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“I've used ncdu for years. Great utility!”
“a visual disk usage analyzer terminal tool which saved me countless times”
“is great if you are okay with the command line”
Caveats and dissent
No one in these comments warned against it.
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Who recommends it in their own words
From the makers not counted in the ranking
“Ultimately, I won't make some of the same decisions regarding the build system”
“Please feel free to cherry-pick whatever you need from my fork”
“this is a new independent fork from original upstream”
Threads where it came up
- Ncdu: An Updated Fork 3 mentions
- Show HN: Leaves – a text-UI disk usage treemap visualizer 2 mentions
- Biff is a command line datetime Swiss army knife 1 mention
- VNDB founder Yorhel has died 1 mention
- Yorhel, founder of the Visual Novel Database (vndb.org) has passed away 1 mention
- Anthropic Cowork feature creates 10GB VM bundle on macOS without warning 1 mention
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All comments 7
“I’ve been using ncdu and WinDirStat for years.”
“I've used "ncdu" to visualize my restic backups”
“those are git and ncdu”
“I've used ncdu for years. Great utility!”
“a visual disk usage analyzer terminal tool which saved me countless times”
“is great if you are okay with the command line”
“See also `gdu` for an `ncdu` more suited to SSDs”