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Dear Linux geeks, in this article, I will guide you through disk usage analysis in Ubuntu. In order to ensure the health and smoothness of the system, it is important to always care about the hard disk of the machine. It is very important to run some analysis properly. Of course, it is easy to run these analyses. To complete the analysis, we will use a wonderful graphical tool called Baobab.

Before we go any further, I can tell you that it's very simple to use, fully functional, and I'm sure it will meet your needs. Baobab is part of gnome-utils, but has been used as a standalone application since Gnome 3.4. By using this disk analysis tool, you can easily scan folders, file systems, not only local, remote directories can be easily analyzed.

With a single click, everything is done! Want to stop scanning? Simple, tap the Stop scanning button at the top of the baobab user interface and finish.

I like the simplicity of the tool and the ability to represent data graphically, like pie charts and trees. So, how do you install and use it on your own machines now?

As far as I know, ubuntu is already installed by default, if not, open a new terminal (CTRL+ALT+T) and run the following command to install it.

sudo apt-get install baobab

After installation, it will be classified into applications, system tools, disk analyzer, or run baobab directly in the terminal using the following command.

baobab

The following pictures show the interface when it is running on your machine.

To scan the Home folder, click Scan Home or Analyzer->Scan Home Folder option. After scanning, the tool will do a lot of analysis, wait patiently for the analysis results!

As you can see above, baobab scan results provide us with a lot of information, including the usage, size, and number of files owned by each folder in the Home directory. There's a pie chart on the right. If you prefer, select View as Treemap Chart at the top and you can easily change it to a tree view.

The following figure shows the interface for selecting a tree view instead of the default pie view.

To scan a file system, select Analyzer->Scan Filesystem , and if you are too lazy to click on them, there is an easy way to do so by pressing CTRL+F.

Choose the method you like, both methods will work and do the same scan. Shortcuts are time-saving and easy to use, but it's hard to remember them all at once if you don't use them every day.

How do I scan folders? Easy! Analyzer-> Scan A Folder -> Select the folder you want to scan, shortcut is CTRL+O. Isn't that easy? Yes! See the Scan a Folder button? Click on it and the scan starts!

The image below shows the results after scanning python-nmap-0.1.4. I got a list of useful information in a simple way.

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