Checking Disk Usage across Platforms (Including AWS)

10 Sep 2021

PS: This post is mostly for my personal note.

Whenever the disk usage goes up, I had to find out which folder takes maximum storage and a visual way to show that was super helpful aways.

Here are some options if you hadn’t used.

• For OSX - DiskInventoryX
• For Windows - WinDirStat
• For Android - DiskUsage

For our AWS servers, it seemed like ncdu was a great option, but later I found GDU and it is brilliant.

As a sidenote, I’ve been seeing more blazing fast disk usage applications being built using golang.