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    -xdev just prevents find from walking across filesystems, so you'll only search your current physical drive. If that's not what you want, just remove the -xdev arg. Commented Jan 13, 2019 at 5:58
  • i was just wondering. Should be this command run without sudo (on /) ? Without sudo it produces a LOT of warnings, rendering the output unreadable Commented Oct 23, 2020 at 13:05
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    @user1762087 You can use sudo if you don't have permission. Commented Oct 24, 2020 at 2:00
  • what do you mean by ncdu for directory? How to search for directories? Commented Oct 1, 2021 at 18:42