Dust is a rewrite of du (in rust obviously) that visualizes your directory tree and what percentage each file takes up. But it only prints as many files fit in your terminal height, so you see only the largest files. It’s been a better experience that du, which isn’t always easy to navigate to find big files (or atleast I’m not good at it.)

Anyway, found a log file at .local/state/nvim/log that was 70gb. I deleted it. Hope it doesn’t bite me. Been pushing around 95% of disk space for a while so this was a huge win 👍

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    8 months ago

    I usually use something like du -sh * | sort -hr | less, so you don’t need to install anything on your machine.

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      Same, but when it’s real bad sort fails 😅 for some reason my root is always hitting 100%

      I usually go for du -hx | sort -h and rely on my terminal scroll back.

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        Maybe, but I need it one time per year or so. It is not a task for which I want to install a separate tool.

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          Perfect for your use case, not as much for others. People sharing tools, and all the different ways to solve this type of problem is great for everyone.

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      8 months ago

      Almost the same here. Well, du -shc *|sort -hr

      I admin around three hundred linux servers and this is one of my most common tasks - although I use -shc as I like the total too, and don’t bother with less as it’s only the biggest files and dirs that I’m interested in and they show up last, so no need to scrollback.

      When managing a lot of servers, the storage requirements when installing extra software is never trivial. (Although our storage does do very clever compression and it might recognise the duplication of the file even across many vm filesystems, I’m never quite sure that works as advertised on small files)

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        I admin around three hundred linux servers

        What do you use for management? Ansible? Puppet? Chef? Something else entirely?

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          du -xh --max-depth=1|sort -hr

          Interesting. Do you often deal with dirs on different filesystems?

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        With sort -hr, the biggest ones are generally at the bottom already, which is often what most people care about.