install

Additional install commands

macOS

Homebrewverified · 100%

brew install diskwatch

local Homebrew formula metadata

Linux

Nixverified · 92%

nix profile install nixpkgs#diskwatch

nixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/di/diskwatch/package.nix · source: api.github.com

overview

Package summary

Cross-platform disk diagnostics TUI

Project links

Commands and aliases

diskwatch

history

Project history and usage

DiskWatch is a read-only terminal user interface for single-host disk diagnostics on macOS and Linux. It presents disk capacity, filesystem, I/O, SMART health, hot-file, and anomaly information in one terminal application.

Project history

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.

Adoption history

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.

How it is used

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.

Why package nerds care

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.

Timeline

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.

Sources

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

security posture

No protected-tool coverage found yet

No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for diskwatch. Nucleus package metadata is still published here so future coverage has a stable package URL.

Install behavior

No Homebrew post-install hook is recorded in formula metadata.
Homebrew bottle metadata is available for 6 platform targets.
Build metadata lists 1 build dependencies.

Recommended review

Before unattended agent use, check whether the tool reads plaintext credentials, writes remote state, publishes artifacts, or shells out to plugins.

executables

Installed executables

Command	Kind	Exposure	Note
`diskwatch`	cli	global executable

freshness

Version and freshness

These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.

page generated2026-07-25

manager version0.1.3

manager updated2026-07-19

local dataok

upstreamcurrent

latest detectedv0.1.3

https://github.com/matthart1983/diskwatch

okNo freshness warnings were generated.

install metadata

Package metadata

Package key	brew:diskwatch
Version	0.1.3
Package manager	Homebrew
Package manager page	https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/diskwatch
Homepage	https://www.netwatchlabs.com/labs/diskwatch
Repository	https://github.com/matthart1983/diskwatch
Upstream docs	https://github.com/matthart1983/diskwatch#readme
License	MIT
Source archive	https://github.com/matthart1983/diskwatch/archive/refs/tags/v0.1.3.tar.gz
Last updated	2026-07-19T04:47:40Z
Pulse	updated
Build dependencies	rust
Bottle	available (on arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux)
Homebrew post-install	not defined
Service	none declared

registry facts

Source database details

Source Database	Homebrew formula API
Tap	homebrew/core
Full Name	diskwatch
Version Scheme	0
Revision	0
Bottle Stable Root URL	https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core
Deprecated	no
Disabled	no
Keg Only	no
URL Keys	stable

source database matches

Other package-manager records

Matches are pulled from external package-manager indexes and kept separate from local Automic Vault package links.

Nix95%

diskwatch

nix profile install nixpkgs#diskwatch

normalized package name match
Matched by: Diskwatch

nixpkgs package indexes · api.github.com · nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/di/diskwatch/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

package graph

Links come from deterministic package relationships, av.db category and tag curation, ecosystem matches, and package hub membership.

source trail

Generated from repository data

This page is generated by av-web from the private package SQLite artifact built by scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py.

Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub.

combined/diskwatch.yml

Used sources

Nucleus package database
av.db category and tag curation
cross-ecosystem install command graph
curated package history
external package-manager database matches
package relationship graph
package version freshness
package-page enrichment

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