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 👍
ncdu is the best utility for this type of thing. I use it all the time.
I install ncdu on any machine I set up, because installing it when it’s needed may be tricky
Try dua. It’s like ncdu but uses multiple threads so it’s a lot faster., especially on SSDs.
i use gdu. it’s written in go which sucks but it’s faster and looks nicer
Why does it suck that it’s written in Go?
even tho ken thompson was involved in it’s development, it’s still a google product and i hate google. and if you don’t like that, then continue to feed their monopoly on the front-end of the internet…whatever bro
Garbage collected languages will never not be at least slightly ick
Edit: I did not expect this to be so controversial, especially in regard to go, but I stand by my statement.
absurd take
Counterpoint: I’ve never used Go myself, but I love that Go apps usually seem to be statically-linked executables. I have a few utilities (such as runitor) that I ‘deploy’ to my servers by just copying them into /usr/local/bin using Ansible.
thank you for saying this
Yes, it looks very similar. The guy of ncdu is making a new improved and faster version in Zig.
For great justice?