diskhog

TUI that lists the largest files on disk and sends the ones you pick to the trash — with each file's size and its share of total disk space shown right in the list.

$ diskhog /                # scan the whole filesystem
$ diskhog ~/Downloads       # or any directory
$ diskhog --top 200 /var    # show more than the default 30

The directory is required — diskhog never picks a scan target for you.

Stays on the filesystem it started on — it won't wander into /proc, /sys, other mounted disks, or network shares. Symlinks are skipped so they can't be followed off the filesystem or double-count another file's size. The walk itself is parallel (via the ignore crate — the same walker ripgrep uses), capped to ~30% of available cores so a scan doesn't try to claim the whole machine, with a live "N files scanned so far" counter printed while it runs.

Deleting is always a trash move, and always confirmed

diskhog never calls the equivalent of rm. Selecting a file and pressing Enter/d shows a confirmation dialog with the exact path and size; only pressing y actually moves it — to your desktop trash (via the trash crate, following the freedesktop.org trash spec on Linux), where it can be restored like anything else you deleted by hand. Any other key cancels.

Install

• Cargo: cargo install diskhog
• Debian package: https://github.com/wabuntu/diskhog/tree/main/target/debian
• RPM package: https://github.com/wabuntu/diskhog/tree/main/target/release/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64
• Single binary: https://github.com/wabuntu/diskhog/tree/main/binaries

Usage

Keys:

• ↑/↓: move the selection
• Enter / d: ask to move the selected file to the trash
• y: confirm the pending delete (any other key cancels)
• q / Esc: quit