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by clemsen 3903 days ago
For those of you who prefer using a GUI (and are using a windows computer): A similar program to Ohmu called "Spacesniffer" displays the space folders and files use, as well as free space in a treemap. It has helped me a lot to quickly see how big some folders are.

http://www.uderzo.it/main_products/space_sniffer/

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I still use it.
Or, for Linux - Filelight: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filelight
or just ncdu on command line? :)

http://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdu

WinDirStat - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinDirStat

Started out as kDirStat for KDE in Linux.

I use ncdu and Ranger file manager 95%+ of the time.

For the Mac, GrandPerspective.
or Daisy Disk[0] which uses a sunburst representation[0] rather than a treemap.

[0] https://www.daisydiskapp.com

[1] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=sunburst+graph&t=osx&iax=1&ia=imag...