---
title: 'ncdu: NCurses Disk Usage (an updated fork)'
link: https://github.com/rcalixte/ncdu
source: lobste-rs
published: 2026-10-04T19:30:36Z
updated: 2026-10-04T19:30:36Z
first_seen: 2026-10-07T13:12:11.295552311Z
authors:
- github.com by rcalixte
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- release
- zig
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## ncdu-zig

## Description

Ncdu is a disk usage analyzer with an ncurses interface. It is designed to find space hogs on a remote server where you don't have an entire graphical setup available, but it is a useful tool even on regular desktop systems. Ncdu aims to be fast, simple and easy to use, and should be able to run in any minimal POSIX-like environment with ncurses installed.

See the [ncdu 2 release announcement](https://dev.yorhel.nl/doc/ncdu2) for information about the differences between this Zig implementation (2.x) and the C version (1.x).

## Requirements

- Zig 0.17
- Some sort of POSIX-like OS
- ncurses
- libzstd

## Install

You can use the Zig build system if you're familiar with that.

There's also a handy Makefile that supports the typical targets, e.g.:

```
make
sudo make install PREFIX=/usr
```