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Looking for a tool to visualize folders based on number of files. in c/linux@lemmy.ml
[–] isti115@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for your input! To me it seems like Nemo only counts the direct descendants and doesn't recurse, which makes it less useful for this purpose, but still nice to know!

Looking for a tool to visualize folders based on number of files. in c/linux@lemmy.ml
[–] isti115@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Thank you for the idea! I didn't know about the --inodes flag before, this seems like a viable solution for systems where I can't / don't want to install additional software!

Looking for a tool to visualize folders based on number of files. in c/linux@lemmy.ml
[–] isti115@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Oh, wow, thank you! I had ncdu installed, but it was an older version, which didn't yet have this feature. Now that I updated to the newest (Zig based 🎉) release this looks perfect for my needs!

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Looking for a tool to visualize folders based on number of files. (lemmy.world)
 

There are plenty of utilities (GUI, such as filelight and TUI, such as dua as well) for analyzing disk usage by space, but I would like to view my folders based on the count of files, as I'm making backups, and folders with lots of small files (e.g. node_modules) take very long to move around, so I guess that I'd be better of compressing those into a single file before archiving, as it's already highly unlikely that I'll need to access them anyway. Thanks for any pointers in advance!

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How I messed up by accidentally replaying all my keystrokes from the last few days (github.com)
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After getting a comment from the creator of kanata (an awesome piece of software by the way) that he found my story amusing, I figured that I'd also post it here, partly as fun, partly as a cautionary tale. Also, I'd appreciate any tips as to what to check for in my system, it's a weird feeling to know that some stuff might have been messed up under the hood.