Open Source Baobab Disk Usage Analyzer Alternatives for Linux

There are many alternatives to Baobab Disk Usage Analyzer for Linux if you are looking for a replacement. The best open source Linux alternative is Filelight. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Baobab Disk Usage Analyzer and 15 are open source and available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source Linux alternatives to Baobab Disk Usage Analyzer are SquirrelDisk, ncdu, QDirStat and K4DirStat.

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  1. 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.

    68 Filelight alternatives

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    • BSD
    • KDE Plasma
    • Snapcraft
    • Flathub
     
  2. SquirrelDisk icon
     66 likes

    SquirrelDisk shows you exactly what's taking up all that space and helps you clear it out. Using SquirrelDisk is a matter of clicking one button to easily find all the huge files on your computer.

    90 SquirrelDisk alternatives

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    • Discontinued

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  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...

    44 ncdu alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
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    • BSD
    • Cygwin
     
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    Guest
    Positive
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    In command line only. seems to be ok I am testing. Thank alternativeto.net ;-)

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    iHateInventNames
    Positive
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    Fast, responsive, terminal, cozy usage.

    • ncdu is Free and Open SourceBaobab Disk Usage Analyzer is also Free and Open Source
  4. QDirStat icon
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    QDirStat is a graphical disk usage utility. The successor of KDirStat without any KDE dependencies.

    66 QDirStat alternatives

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    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
     
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    costanza6221
    Positive
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    I don't want load of GTK4 dependencies anymore. Filelight has KDE dependencies either.

    brunetton
    Positive
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    This is also open source, and fast. But QDirStat is way more complete

    • QDirStat is Free and Open SourceBaobab Disk Usage Analyzer is also Free and Open Source
  5. 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.

    73 K4DirStat alternatives

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    • Linux
    • KDE
     
  6. Duc icon
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    Duc is a collection of tools for inspecting and visualizing disk usage.

    Duc scales quite well, it has been tested on systems with more than 500 million files and several petabytes of storage.

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    • Mac
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    dua (-> Disk Usage Analyzer) is a tool to conveniently learn about the usage of disk space of a given directory. It's parallel by default and will max out your SSD, providing relevant information as fast as possible.

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    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • MacPorts
    • Homebrew
     
  8. crossdirstat icon
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    Free open-source cross-platform file & directory statistics as found on Github

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  9. GD Map icon
     21 likes

    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...

    57 GD Map alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
     
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    GD Map vs Baobab Disk Usage Analyzer Comments
    scrat
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    GD Map is the fastest -- it scans through gigabytes in seconds.

    • GD Map is Free and Open SourceBaobab Disk Usage Analyzer is also Free and Open Source
  10.  6 likes

    A disk usage free utility for Linux.

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
     
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    A disk usage calculator for Linux.

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    • Linux
     
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    a tool to analyze file system usage written in Rust.

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    • Linux
    • Rust
     
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