How to Install Duf on Ubuntu 22.04
Duf also called "Disk Usage Free utility" is a free and open-source tool written in Golang. It is used to display disk usage of the system in a tabular format. It is an alternative to the df
command and it can be installed on Linux, BSD, Windows, and macOS. It also displays the disk usage details in the JSON output.
In this post, we will show you how to monitor disk usage with the Duf utility on Ubuntu 22.04.
Prerequisites
-
A system with Ubuntu 22.04 installed and running.
root
access to the system.
Check for System Updates
First, we will update the system to the latest with the following commands,
apt update
apt upgrade
Install Duf
At the time of writing this article, version 0.8.1
was the latest. You can check and download the latest version of .deb
source file from their official repository.
We will download using wget
command as shown below,
wget https://github.com/muesli/duf/releases/download/v0.8.1/duf_0.8.1_linux_amd64.deb
Output:
root@vps:~# wget https://github.com/muesli/duf/releases/download/v0.8.1/duf_0.8.1_linux_amd64.deb
--2022-07-11 18:14:42-- https://github.com/muesli/duf/releases/download/v0.8.1/duf_0.8.1_linux_amd64.deb
Resolving github.com (github.com)... 140.82.121.3
Connecting to github.com (github.com)|140.82.121.3|:443... connected.
Resolving objects.githubusercontent.com (objects.githubusercontent.com)... 185.199.109.133, 185.199.111.133, 185.199.108.133, ...
Connecting to objects.githubusercontent.com (objects.githubusercontent.com)|185.199.109.133|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 917644 (896K) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: ‘duf_0.8.1_linux_amd64.deb’
duf_0.8.1_linux_amd 100%[===================>] 896.14K --.-KB/s in 0.08s
2022-07-11 18:14:42 (11.3 MB/s) - ‘duf_0.8.1_linux_amd64.deb’ saved [917644/917644]
Install the downloaded .deb
source file using the dpkg
command,
apt install dpkg
dpkg -i duf_0.8.1_linux_amd64.deb
Output:
root@vps:~# dpkg -i duf_0.8.1_linux_amd64.deb
Selecting previously unselected package duf.
(Reading database ... 71656 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack duf_0.8.1_linux_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking duf (0.8.1) ...
Setting up duf (0.8.1) ...
Using the Duf Command Utility
We will now try using the duf
command on the terminal to get disk-related information.
duf
Output:
root@vps:~# duf
╭────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ 1 local device │
├────────────┬───────┬──────┬───────┬────────┬──────┬────────────┤
│ MOUNTED ON │ SIZE │ USED │ AVAIL │ USE% │ TYPE │ FILESYSTEM │
├────────────┼───────┼──────┼───────┼────────┼──────┼────────────┤
│ / │ 48.7G │ 2.5G │ 43.7G │ 5.0% │ ext4 │ /dev/vda3 │
╰────────────┴───────┴──────┴───────┴────────┴──────┴────────────╯
╭────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ 7 special devices │
├────────────────┬────────┬────────┬────────┬────────┬──────────┬────────────┤
│ MOUNTED ON │ SIZE │ USED │ AVAIL │ USE% │ TYPE │ FILESYSTEM │
├────────────────┼────────┼────────┼────────┼────────┼──────────┼────────────┤
│ /dev │ 947.7M │ 0B │ 947.7M │ │ devtmpfs │ udev │
│ /dev/shm │ 991.6M │ 0B │ 991.6M │ │ tmpfs │ tmpfs │
│ /run │ 198.3M │ 952.0K │ 197.4M │ 0.5% │ tmpfs │ tmpfs │
│ /run/lock │ 5.0M │ 0B │ 5.0M │ │ tmpfs │ tmpfs │
│ /run/snapd/ns │ 198.3M │ 956.0K │ 197.4M │ 0.5% │ tmpfs │ tmpfs │
│ /run/user/0 │ 198.3M │ 0B │ 198.3M │ │ tmpfs │ tmpfs │
│ /sys/fs/cgroup │ 991.6M │ 0B │ 991.6M │ │ tmpfs │ tmpfs │
╰────────────────┴────────┴────────┴────────┴────────┴──────────┴────────────╯
Next, Find out more duf
usages and available options that you can use to get started,
duf --help
To display the information about Pseudo, inaccessible, and duplicate file systems, run the following command:
duf -all
Output:
root@vps:~# duf -all
╭────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ 6 local devices │
├───────────────────┬───────┬───────┬───────┬────────┬──────────┬────────────┤
│ MOUNTED ON │ SIZE │ USED │ AVAIL │ USE% │ TYPE │ FILESYSTEM │
├───────────────────┼───────┼───────┼───────┼────────┼──────────┼────────────┤
│ / │ 48.7G │ 2.5G │ 43.7G │ 5.0% │ ext4 │ /dev/vda3 │
│ /snap/core18/2128 │ 55.5M │ 55.5M │ 0B │ 100.0% │ squashfs │ /dev/loop0 │
│ /snap/core20/1518 │ 62.0M │ 62.0M │ 0B │ 100.0% │ squashfs │ /dev/loop4 │
│ /snap/lxd/21029 │ 70.4M │ 70.4M │ 0B │ 100.0% │ squashfs │ /dev/loop1 │
│ /snap/lxd/22753 │ 67.9M │ 67.9M │ 0B │ 100.0% │ squashfs │ /dev/loop5 │
│ /snap/snapd/16292 │ 47.0M │ 47.0M │ 0B │ 100.0% │ squashfs │ /dev/loop3 │
╰───────────────────┴───────┴───────┴───────┴────────┴──────────┴────────────╯
╭──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ 35 special devices │
├────────────────────┬────────┬────────┬────────┬────────┬───────────┬─────────────┤
│ MOUNTED ON │ SIZE │ USED │ AVAIL │ USE% │ TYPE │ FILESYSTEM │
├────────────────────┼────────┼────────┼────────┼────────┼───────────┼─────────────┤
│ /dev │ 947.7M │ 0B │ 947.7M │ │ devtmpfs │ udev │
│ /dev/hugepages │ 0B │ 0B │ 0B │ │ hugetlbfs │ hugetlbfs │
│ /dev/mqueue │ 0B │ 0B │ 0B │ │ mqueue │ mqueue │
│ /dev/pts │ 0B │ 0B │ 0B │ │ devpts │ devpts │
│ /dev/shm │ 991.6M │ 0B │ 991.6M │ │ tmpfs │ tmpfs │
│ /proc │ 0B │ 0B │ 0B │ │ proc │ proc │
│ /proc/sys/fs/binfm │ 0B │ 0B │ 0B │ │ binfmt_mi │ binfmt_misc │
│ t_misc │ │ │ │ │ sc │ │
│ /proc/sys/fs/binfm │ 0B │ 0B │ 0B │ │ autofs │ systemd-1 │
│ t_misc │ │ │ │ │ │ │
│ /run │ 198.3M │ 952.0K │ 197.4M │ 0.5% │ tmpfs │ tmpfs │
│ /run/lock │ 5.0M │ 0B │ 5.0M │ │ tmpfs │ tmpfs │
│ /run/snapd/ns │ 198.3M │ 952.0K │ 197.4M │ 0.5% │ tmpfs │ tmpfs │
│ /run/snapd/ns/lxd. │ 0B │ 0B │ 0B │ │ nsfs │ nsfs │
│ mnt │ │ │ │ │ │ │
│ /run/user/0 │ 198.3M │ 0B │ 198.3M │ │ tmpfs │ tmpfs │
│ /sys │ 0B │ 0B │ 0B │ │ sysfs │ sysfs │
│ /sys/fs/bpf │ 0B │ 0B │ 0B │ │ bpf │ none │
│ /sys/fs/cgroup │ 991.6M │ 0B │ 991.6M │ │ tmpfs │ tmpfs │
│ /sys/fs/cgroup/blk │ 0B │ 0B │ 0B │ │ cgroup │ cgroup │
│ io │ │ │ │ │ │ │
│ /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu │ 0B │ 0B │ 0B │ │ cgroup │ cgroup │
│ ,cpuacct │ │ │ │ │ │ │
│ /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu │ 0B │ 0B │ 0B │ │ cgroup │ cgroup │
│ set │ │ │ │ │ │ │
│ /sys/fs/cgroup/dev │ 0B │ 0B │ 0B │ │ cgroup │ cgroup │
│ ices │ │ │ │ │ │ │
│ /sys/fs/cgroup/fre │ 0B │ 0B │ 0B │ │ cgroup │ cgroup │
│ ezer │ │ │ │ │ │ │
│ /sys/fs/cgroup/hug │ 0B │ 0B │ 0B │ │ cgroup │ cgroup │
│ etlb │ │ │ │ │ │ │
│ /sys/fs/cgroup/mem │ 0B │ 0B │ 0B │ │ cgroup │ cgroup │
│ ory │ │ │ │ │ │ │
│ /sys/fs/cgroup/net │ 0B │ 0B │ 0B │ │ cgroup │ cgroup │
│ _cls,net_prio │ │ │ │ │ │ │
│ /sys/fs/cgroup/per │ 0B │ 0B │ 0B │ │ cgroup │ cgroup │
│ f_event │ │ │ │ │ │ │
│ /sys/fs/cgroup/pid │ 0B │ 0B │ 0B │ │ cgroup │ cgroup │
│ s │ │ │ │ │ │ │
│ /sys/fs/cgroup/rdm │ 0B │ 0B │ 0B │ │ cgroup │ cgroup │
│ a │ │ │ │ │ │ │
│ /sys/fs/cgroup/sys │ 0B │ 0B │ 0B │ │ cgroup │ cgroup │
│ temd │ │ │ │ │ │ │
│ /sys/fs/cgroup/uni │ 0B │ 0B │ 0B │ │ cgroup2 │ cgroup2 │
│ fied │ │ │ │ │ │ │
│ /sys/fs/fuse/conne │ 0B │ 0B │ 0B │ │ fusectl │ fusectl │
│ ctions │ │ │ │ │ │ │
│ /sys/fs/pstore │ 0B │ 0B │ 0B │ │ pstore │ pstore │
│ /sys/kernel/config │ 0B │ 0B │ 0B │ │ configfs │ configfs │
│ /sys/kernel/debug │ 0B │ 0B │ 0B │ │ debugfs │ debugfs │
│ /sys/kernel/securi │ 0B │ 0B │ 0B │ │ securityf │ securityfs │
│ ty │ │ │ │ │ s │ │
│ /sys/kernel/tracin │ 0B │ 0B │ 0B │ │ tracefs │ tracefs │
│ g │ │ │ │ │ │ │
╰────────────────────┴────────┴────────┴────────┴────────┴───────────┴─────────────╯
Done!