baobab(1)

baobab1

A graphical disk usage analyzer for the gnome desktop

Usage

baobab [OPTIONS…] [DIRECTORY]

Overview

baobab (a.k.a. Disk Usage Analyzer) is able to scan either specific folders (local and remote) or devices, in order to give the user a tree representation including each directory size or percentage in the branch. It also auto-detects any mounted/unmounted device. A graphical representation is also provided for any selected folder.

Options

-a, --all-file-systems

Do not skip directories on different file systems. Ignored if DIRECTORY is not specified.

--help

Show command line options.

--version

Output version information and exit.

Additional information

For further information visit https://apps.gnome.org/Baobab/.

Releases

11 releases since Debian 4.0 (Etch); the text changed 5 times.

  1. 4.0
  2. 5.0
  3. 6.0–7
  4. 8–10
  5. 11–12
  6. 13–Arch

--all-file-systems since Debian 11 (Bullseye); --help since Debian 11 (Bullseye); --version since Debian 11 (Bullseye); -a since Debian 11 (Bullseye).

Bugs

Bugs should be reported to the GNOME issue tracker at http://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/baobab/issues.

From baobab 50.0-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.