diskwatch mit Homebrew installieren

Projektlinks

• Homepage
• Repository

Befehle und Aliase

• diskwatch

Projektgeschichte

The official NetWatch Labs page presents DiskWatch as a preview v0.1.1 tool in the same watch-family style as NetWatch and SysWatch. Its public GitHub repository describes it as a sibling to those tools and implements it as a Rust command-line application.

Adoptionsgeschichte

DiskWatch is young and has a narrow public adoption record. The supplied package metadata shows it packaged for Homebrew and Nix, which is the main current signal that Unix package users can install it without building from source.

Wie es verwendet wird

Users run `diskwatch tui` for the interactive terminal UI or `diskwatch --diag` to print collected state and exit. The documented tabs cover overview, devices, volumes, filesystems, I/O, SMART data, hot files, and plain-English insights.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

For package maintainers, DiskWatch is a small Rust TUI with few platform dependencies. It is interesting because it wraps common disk-inspection surfaces such as `/proc/diskstats`, inotify, FSEvents, diskutil, system_profiler, and optional smartctl into one packaged executable.

Zeitleiste

• 2026: Official homepage lists DiskWatch preview v0.1.1.
• 2026: The source metadata lists Homebrew and Nix package-manager names.

Related projects

• DiskWatch is positioned by its official pages as a sibling to NetWatch and SysWatch, and it overlaps operationally with iostat, iotop, smartctl, lsblk, df, du, diskutil, and system_profiler.

Quellen

• https://github.com/matthart1983/diskwatch
• https://www.netwatchlabs.com/labs/diskwatch
• source_facts.package-manager