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 Linux alternative is Filelight, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Baobab Disk Usage Analyzer and many of them are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to Baobab Disk Usage Analyzer are ncdu, SquirrelDisk, QDirStat and Space Radar.

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  1. Filelight icon

    Filelight

     87 likes

    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.

    73 Filelight alternatives

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    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • KDE Plasma
    • Snapcraft
    • Flathub
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    ncdu

     135 likes

    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

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Cygwin
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  4. SquirrelDisk icon

    SquirrelDisk

     65 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.

    95 SquirrelDisk alternatives

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    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  5. QDirStat icon

    QDirStat

     42 likes

    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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  7. JDiskReport icon

    JDiskReport

     94 likes

    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

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
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  9. K4DirStat icon

    K4DirStat

     12 likes

    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.

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    • Linux
    • KDE
     
  10. Duc icon

    Duc

     5 likes

    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.

    74 Duc alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Linux
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    dua-cli

     2 likes

    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • MacPorts
    • Homebrew
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    crossdirstat

     4 likes

    Free open-source cross-platform file & directory statistics as found on Github

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  13. ferris-scan icon

    ferris-scan

     3 likes

    ferris-scan is a lightweight and fast both terminal user interface (TUI) and graphic user interface (GUI) alternative to WinDirStat. Built with Rust and ratatui, it scans your disk in parallel using a thread pool, allowing you to quickly navigate directories directly from the...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
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    dutree

     3 likes

    a tool to analyze file system usage written in Rust.

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    • Linux
    • Rust
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