I think something might be wrong with your Neovim if it aggregated 70 gigs of log files.

ncdu is the best utility for this type of thing. I use it all the time.

Came in expecting a story of tragedy, congrats. 🎉

Try ncdu as well. No instructions needed, just run ncdu /path/to/your/directory.

MINI GUIDE TO FREEING UP DISK SPACE (by a datahoarder idiot who runs on 5 gigs free space on 4 TB)

You will find more trash with the combination of 4 tools. Czkawka (duplicates and big files), Dupeguru (logs), VideoDuplicateFinder by 0x90d, and tune2fs.

VDF finds duplicates by multiple frames of a video, and with reversing frames, and you can set similarity % rate and duration of videos. It is the best tool of its kind with nothing to match it, and uses ffmpeg as backend.

There is a certain amount of disk space reserved on partitions for root or privileged processes, but users who create /home partition separately do not need this reserved space there. 5% space is reserved by default, no matter if your disk is 1 TB, 2 TB or 4 TB. To change this, use command sudo tune2fs -m N (where N is % you want to reserve, can be put to 0% for /home, but NEVER touch root, swap or others, use GParted to check which is which partition).

Regular junk cleaning on Linux can be done with BleachBit. Wipe free disk space once in 3-6 months atleast.

On Windows, use PrivaZer instead of BleachBit.

Since all of these are GUI tools (except tune2fs which requires no commandline hackerman knowledge), this guide is targeted towards tech literacy level of users who can atleast replace crack EXEs in pirated games on Windows.

I usually use something like du -sh * | sort -hr | less, so you don't need to install anything on your machine.

So like filelight?

I really like ncdu

check out dua. I usually use it in interactive most which lets you navigate through the file system with visual representations of total dir/file size.

Here is a screenshot randomly found from the github issues

I also recently found this gui program called k4dirstat buried in the repos. There are a few more modern options but this one blows them all out of the park.

Screenshot from the github repo:

Too bad they used such an ugly configuration for the screenshot.. It allows you to modify the visualization to look better and display information differently. Anyway just thought I'd share as the project is old and little known.

A 70gb log file?? Am I misunderstanding something or wouldn't that be hundreds of millions of lines

You guys aren't using du -sh ./{dir1,dir2} | sort -nh | head?

Maybe other tools support this too but one thing I like about xdiskusage is that you can pipe regular du output into it. That means that I can run du on some remote host that doesn't have anything fancy installed, scp it back to my desktop and analyze it there. I can also pre-process the du output before feeding it into xdiskusage.

I also often work with textual du output directly, just sorting it by size is very often all I need to see.

I miss WinDirStat for seeing where all my hard drive space went. You can spot enormous files and folders full of ISOs at a glance.

For bit-for-bit duplicates (thanks, modern DownThemAll), use fdupes.

I use gdu and never had any issues like that with it

Yeah, it helped me unblock my server where I ran out of space