KDirStat Alternatives for Linux

There are many alternatives to KDirStat for Linux and since it's discontinued a lot of people are looking for a replacement. The best Linux alternative is Baobab Disk Usage Analyzer, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to KDirStat and 11 are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to KDirStat are Filelight, ncdu, QDirStat and JDiskReport.

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  1. Powerful GNOME application that provides in-depth disk usage analysis with graphical representation. It supports scanning of volumes, specific directories, and network folders, offering insights into space allocation both locally and remotely.

    90 Baobab Disk Usage Analyzer alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Flathub
    • FreeBSD
    • GNOME
    • Homebrew
     
  2. Filelight icon
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    Provides graphical disk usage analysis using interactive segmented rings, scans local, remote and removable disks, enables navigation and file management from within the interface, displays live info on hover, and integrates with KDE file managers for efficient data management.

    74 Filelight alternatives

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    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • KDE Plasma
    • Snapcraft
    • Flathub
     
  3. ncdu icon
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    A disk usage analyzer with an ncurses interface, aimed to be run on a remote server where you don't have an entire graphical setup, but have to do with a simple SSH connection. ncdu aims to be fast, simple and easy to use, and should be able to run in any minimal POSIX-like...

    47 ncdu alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Cygwin
     
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  4. QDirStat icon
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    QDirStat is a graphical disk usage utility. The successor of KDirStat without any KDE dependencies.

    71 QDirStat alternatives

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    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
     
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  5. JDiskReport icon
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    JDiskReport enables you to understand how much space the files and directories consume on your disk drives, and it helps you find obsolete files and folders.

    75 JDiskReport alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  6. GD Map icon
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    GdMap is a tool which allows to visualize disk space. Ever wondered why your hard disk is full or what directory and files take up most of the space? With GdMap these questions can be answered quickly. To display directory structures cushion treemaps are used which visualize a...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  7. K4DirStat icon
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    K4DirStat, fork of KDirStat , is a small utility program that sums up disk usage for directory trees, very much like the Unix 'du' command. It displays the disk space used up by a directory tree, both numerically and graphically.

    75 K4DirStat alternatives

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    • Linux
    • KDE
     
  8. xdiskusage icon
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    xdiskusage is a user-friendly program to show you what is using up all your disk space. It is based on the design of xhttp://alternativeto.net/software/xdu/ written by Phillip C. Dykstra <dykstra at ieee dot org & gt.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
     
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    Disk usage or other tree data display program. Typical usage: du -xm / | xdu -n

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  10. FSV icon
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    fsv (pronounced eff-ess-vee) is a file system visualizer in cyberspace. It lays out files and directories in three dimensions, geometrically representing the file system hierarchy to allow visual overview and analysis.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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