`duc`'s GUI view

duc's GUI view

Continuing a series of blog posts about Debian packages I have adopted (starting with smartmontools), in January this year I adopted duc ("Dude, where are my bytes?")

duc is a tool to record and visualise disk space usage. Recording and visualising are performed separately, meaning the latter is very fast. There are several visualisers available. The three most interesting ones are

  • duc ui, a text terminal/ncurses-based heirarchical browser
  • duc gui, a GUI/X11 application
  • duc cgi, a CGI for access with a web browser

The GUI and CGI resemble the fantastic Filelight KDE tool, which I've always preferred to the similar tools available for GNOME, Windows or macOS. (duc itself works fine on macOS). The CGI could be deployed on my NAS, but I haven't set it up yet.

Indexing is performed via duc index <path> and seems very quick when compared to something like du -sh. The index is stored in a local database.

I adopted duc in sad circumstances after the prior maintainer decided to step down, in response to a discussion we had about a feature request for the Debian package. This wasn't the outcome I wanted, but it's a package I use regularly on several machines so I stepped up to adopt it.

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comment 1
Oooh, interesting. I do love Filelight, but this seems more viable for running on various servers that lack GUIs themselves.
Comment by keithzg,
comment 2

The circular view seems good to identify big directories.

To find big files, I prefer the Treemap visualization qdirstat/k4dirstat/windirstat. Do you use it as well?

Comment by mitch,

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