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https://github.com/yaroslaff/ncdu-compare
Compare ncdu export files and show difference to find what took most space since previous measurement
https://github.com/yaroslaff/ncdu-compare
cleanup compare comparison comparison-tool diff difference disk-space disk-space-analyzer disk-usage du filesize ncdu sysadmin sysadmin-tool system-admin system-administration
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Compare ncdu export files and show difference to find what took most space since previous measurement
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/yaroslaff/ncdu-compare
- Owner: yaroslaff
- License: mit
- Created: 2021-12-30T08:25:56.000Z (almost 3 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2024-11-06T22:03:52.000Z (6 days ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-11-06T23:18:28.939Z (6 days ago)
- Topics: cleanup, compare, comparison, comparison-tool, diff, difference, disk-space, disk-space-analyzer, disk-usage, du, filesize, ncdu, sysadmin, sysadmin-tool, system-admin, system-administration
- Language: Python
- Homepage:
- Size: 13.7 KB
- Stars: 5
- Watchers: 2
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 1
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE
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README
# ncdu-compare
Compare ncdu export files and shows differences to find out what consumes most space.
## Installation
~~~
# from pypi
pip3 install ncdu-compare
# ... or from git
pip3 install git+https://github.com/yaroslaff/ncdu-compare.git
~~~
## Example usage
Create ncdu snapshots with command:
~~~bash
# now
$ ncdu /some/path/ -0o /tmp/snapshot-1
# after some time, e.g. daily
$ ncdu /some/path/ -0o /tmp/snapshot-2
~~~
Compare it
~~~bash
$ ncdu-compare /tmp/snapshot-1 /tmp/snapshot-2 | sort -n | tail -n 5
~~~
Example real output (first number is growth in bytes for `sort -n`, may be negative):
~~~
2125273220 DIR /home/username/public_html/client-portal/storage/framework/cache (18.96G => 21.09G (2.13G))
2125273220 DIR /home/username/public_html/client-portal/storage/framework/cache/data (18.96G => 21.09G (2.13G))
2125741830 DIR /home/username/public_html/client-portal/storage/framework (18.97G => 21.10G (2.13G))
2153400708 DIR /home/username/public_html/client-portal/storage (19.29G => 21.44G (2.15G))
3134727368 DIR /home/username/public_html/client-portal/public/aaa/customer_folder (36.76G => 39.90G (3.13G))
3146881276 DIR /home/username/public_html/client-portal/public/aaa (52.62G => 55.77G (3.15G))
4649987199 DIR /home/username/public_html/client-portal/public (158.13G => 162.78G (4.65G))
6803387907 DIR /home/username/public_html/client-portal (177.97G => 184.78G (6.80G))
6805286889 DIR /home/username/public_html (179.92G => 186.73G (6.81G))
~~~
## Invalid unicode filenames
Sometimes ncdu can produce invalid JSON files (see https://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdu/jsonfmt). When loading ncdu files ncdu-compare uses (default) 'replace' mode to handle unicode errors. You can override it with `-e`/`--error` options, e.g. `--error ignore`. More at python doc to [open()](https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#open).
## See also
My other project [Plus Size](https://github.com/yaroslaff/pluss) to detect changes in short-time (e.g. fast growing log files)
[ncdu-diff](https://github.com/lilydjwg/ncdu-diff) C + Python ncdu fork that can compare and diff results