LinDriveSpace
See what is eating your disk, mount by mount.
A native GTK 3 disk-space explorer for Linux Mint and Debian-family desktops. See every mount and partition at a glance, then drill into folders and files to find out exactly what is eating your disk.
- statusv0.1
- licensePolyForm Noncommercial 1.0.0
- built withPython · GTK 3 · PyGObject
- GTK 3 native
- Mint 22 · Ubuntu 24.04
- X11 + Wayland
Not for Windows, macOS or the Windows Subsystem for Linux.
What it does
Features
- 01
Mounts overview
Every mount grouped by physical disk with used, free and total, usage bars amber at 85% and red at 95%, and live USB hot-plug.
- 02
Explorer tree
A sortable tree of folders and files with apparent and allocated sizes, counts, share-of-parent bars and modified dates.
- 03
Insight panel
A squarified treemap, the largest files in the selection, file-type totals and an age histogram.
- 04
History
Usage recorded automatically and charted per mount; a Where-space-changed table diffs two scans folder by folder.
- 05
Scan as admin
Denied subtrees can be re-scanned through a polkit prompt; the elevated helper is a tiny stdlib-only process, never the GUI.
- 06
Exports
Export the tree as CSV or JSON and the treemap as PNG; move to trash with confirmation, open in file manager or terminal.
A closer look
Install
Build and install the Debian package, or run straight from the checkout.
Requirements
- Python 3.10+ (3.12 on Mint 22)
- GTK 3.24 + PyGObject
- python3-psutil, python3-pyudev
- fonts-ubuntu, policykit-1 (optional)
- X11 or Wayland session
git clone https://github.com/MensuraMedia/lindrivespace.git && cd lindrivespace
scripts/build-deb.sh # → dist/lindrivespace_0.2.0_all.deb
sudo apt install ./dist/lindrivespace_0.2.0_all.deb- scripts/install.sh installs to ~/.local; --system for all users; scripts/uninstall.sh keeps settings and history
- ./run.sh runs from the checkout with nothing to install
- Not packaged for Fedora, Arch or openSUSE, but ./run.sh works with the distro's own GTK 3 packages
Full and current instructions: the README on GitHub.
At a glance
| Version | v0.1 — installable (2026-09) |
|---|---|
| Tested on | Linux Mint 22.3 Zena, GTK 3.24, Python 3.12 |
| Platform | Debian family; X11 and Wayland |
| Licence | PolyForm Noncommercial 1.0.0 |