Awesome Linux tools – ncdu, scan your hard drive and free up space!

Do you know where your most used files and directories are located? Of course, you can run many commands to find out, but ncdu is a great tool for this purpose. Using ncdu, you can scan your entire hard drive (or any mounted file system) and determine where your storage problems are – and take action!

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*Time codes*
00:00 – Introduction
00:59 – Installing ncdu
01:46 – Analyzing your main file system with ncdu
04:06 – Quick note on the impact of permissions on ncdu
05:22 – Deleting files via ncdu
06:43 – Scanning a specific file system with ncdu

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