For those who are familiar with using the *nix du command, ncdu is like a nice step up. Finding what is using your disk space naturally requires repeatedly descending into directories and checking what is using up most space. So having TUI for it makes a lot of sense.

Thanks for listing it.

ncdu also has the really cool feature of being able to dump its internal scan state to stdout and having a flag to load that state, which means you can pipe SSH output from ncdu on a server into a local file. Then you can inspect what's taking up space on a VPS without having to log in on it.

It's especially great if the server is out of disk space and/or the server is under too heavy a load to keep an SSH connection going; you can investigate what's clogging up space (usually logfiles gone awry) and clean up accordingly.

It's one of the default utilities I have installed on my servers for a very good reason and it's helped out countless times over the past few years for hobby servers of mine (aka the ones where "scaling it up" isn't an option because the budget is constrained by it being a hobby).

and despite having learned about it years ago i still can't remember to use it.

du -h|sort -h goes a really long way

ncdu is the next step when you've got as far as you can with `du -h | sort -n`