Master Disk Space Monitoring with duf: Install and Use Across Platforms

duf (Disk Usage/Free) is a Go‑written command‑line utility that displays available disk space statistics on Linux, macOS, BSD, Android, and Windows.

Key features :

Easy to use

Colorful display

Responsive layout that adapts to terminal size

Sortable output

Filters and grouping

JSON output support

Installation

From source (requires Go):

git clone https://github.com/muesli/duf.git
cd duf
go build

Debian/Ubuntu (pre‑built .deb):

wget https://github.com/muesli/duf/releases/download/v0.5.0/checksums.txt
wget https://github.com/muesli/duf/releases/download/v0.5.0/duf_0.5.0_linux_amd64.deb
sha256sum --ignore-missing -c checksums.txt
sudo dpkg -i duf_0.5.0_linux_amd64.deb

RPM‑based distributions:

wget https://github.com/muesli/duf/releases/download/v0.5.0/duf_0.5.0_linux_amd64.rpm
wget https://github.com/muesli/duf/releases/download/v0.5.0/checksums.txt
sha256sum --ignore-missing -c checksums.txt
rpm -ivh duf_0.5.0_linux_amd64.rpm

Arch Linux (AUR):

# Prepare AUR
sudo pacman -S --needed base-devel
git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/duf.git
cd duf
less PKGBUILD
makepkg -si

Termux (Android): pkg install duf macOS (Homebrew or MacPorts):

brew install duf
# or
sudo port selfupdate && sudo port install duf

FreeBSD:

sudo sh -c 'pkg update && pkg upgrade && pkg install duf'

Windows (Scoop): scoop install duf Basic usage duf Displays a table with total mounted devices, mount points, total size, used and free space, usage percentage, filesystem type, and name.

Show a specific mount point: duf /home Show all filesystems, including pseudo and inaccessible ones: duf --all Sorting output

duf --sort size
duf --sort used

Valid sort keys: mountpoint, size, used, avail, usage, inodes, inodes_used, inodes_avail, inodes_usage, type, filesystem.

Custom columns duf --output mountpoint,size,usage Show inode details instead of block usage: duf --inodes Themes

duf --theme dark
duf --theme light

JSON output duf --json Overall, duf is a lightweight, user‑friendly CLI tool suitable for personal Linux desktops, macOS machines, or development servers, though it may not be ideal for production servers.