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title: "What is taking much space on your Linux/BSD system?"
url: https://perrotta.dev/2014/09/what-is-taking-much-space-on-your-linux/bsd-system/
last_updated: 2026-03-03
---


This program is so nice that I had to create a blog post just to tell people
about it: [ncdu](http://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdu). It is the most awesome and
easiest (really easy! I would indicate it to any new Unix user as well) program
to detect which folders/files are eating too much disk space on your system.
Available for dozens of platforms. **TL;DR _and_ tutorial: just install, then
type ncdu<ENTER> and wait for the best (worse?).** See
[screenshots](http://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdu/scr).