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Abhishek
Member • Mar 21, 2014
Check Disk Space Used By Files Directly From Terminal Using 'NCDU'.
NCDU abbreviated as NCurses Disk Usage is a disk usage analyzer tool written entirely in C, most probably used when you don't have access to graphical interface & only have to deal with CLI.
Install it From source : #-Link-Snipped-#
Then open Terminal/Konsole & type :
![1](https://data.crazyengineers.com/old-attachments/10/10113-1.png)
After scanning is over, you can see the space used in each & every directory under Root (/) [as we have used command to scan root] :
![2](https://data.crazyengineers.com/old-attachments/10/10114-2.png)
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Install it From source : #-Link-Snipped-#
Then open Terminal/Konsole & type :
ncdu -xExample : (Here we are scanning entire root directory)
ncdu -x /The scanning of files & folders will begin & you will see something like :
![1](https://data.crazyengineers.com/old-attachments/10/10113-1.png)
![2](https://data.crazyengineers.com/old-attachments/10/10114-2.png)