This article spotlights alternative tools to df.
The software featured here is free and open source. All tools provide a command-line interface (CLI) unless otherwise stated.
| Alternatives to df | |
|---|---|
| duf | Simple disk usage utility written in Go |
| dysk | Billed as a better df (previously known as lfs) |
| pydf | Fully colorised df-clone |
| dfrs | Display file system space usage using graphs and colors |
| dfc | Report file system space usage information |
Have we missed any open source alternatives to df? Please let us know!
All the CLI tools in this series.
| Alternatives to CLI tools |
|---|
| age // awk // bc // cal // cat // cd // chmod // cksum // cloc // cmp // compress // cp // cron // curl // cut // date // dd // df // diff // dig // du // fdisk // find // ftp // grep // gzip // hexdump // history // jq // kill // less // locate // ls // lsof // make // man // more // mv / ping // ps // psql // rename // rm // sed // split // ssh // strings // sudo // sysctl // tail // talk // tar // telnet // time // top // touch // traceroute // tree // uname // uniq // uptime // vi // watch // Wget // who // whois // xargs |
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Some other disk usage cli apps I know of:
gdu
dust
diskus
parallel-disk-usage
space
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This article focuses on alternatives to df. Let’s go through each of your suggestions:
gdu is an alternative to du (not df) and is covered in our du roundup. That’s also the case for dust, and parallel-disk-usage (pdu). We are aware of diskus and we’ll be updating the article shortly.
Many thanks for telling us about space; that one we didn’t know about and will add it to the du roundup too.