diskonaut is ncdu, but with better visualization & Rust (github.com)
from verstra@programming.dev to programming@programming.dev on 13 Dec 15:08
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atzanteol@sh.itjust.works on 13 Dec 16:02 next collapse

Better? This is absolutely awful if you have more than a handful of directories and files. It just shows the top directories and excludes everything that doesn’t fit. Directory names are truncated if they don’t fit so it’s difficult to know what “ti[…]e/” is… And you get this weird XXXXX lump for small files.

gdu is a slightly “nicer” looking ncdu and much faster than this.

verstra@programming.dev on 13 Dec 16:58 next collapse

Oh nice. gdu really is ncdu, just faster (on SSDs).

Link for lazy people: github.com/dundee/gdu

Ferk@programming.dev on 17 Dec 16:07 collapse

And if looking for Rust alternatives, there’s dua.

Particularly user friendly when called in interactive mode with dua i, you can navigate the tree immediately as it populates and calculates space progressively.

atzanteol@sh.itjust.works on 18 Dec 04:17 collapse

I don’t look for apps based on what language they’re written in.

And I sure as hell don’t install apps that use “curl” to fetch an install script and pipe it to a shell. This practice needs to die in a fire.

mbirth@lemmy.ml on 13 Dec 18:05 next collapse

Doesn’t seem to cope well with hardlinks, also last commit was 2 years ago…

wewbull@feddit.uk on 13 Dec 21:15 collapse

…but it’s Rust!

Really wish the rusticles out there realised that the language is not a feature for user-space apps. Nobody cares if their disk utilisation tool is in Rust. All that matters is that gives useful information in a timely fashion.

thingsiplay@beehaw.org on 13 Dec 21:57 collapse

Nobody cares if their disk utilisation tool is in Rust.

Wrong. You don’t care. There are people who care. Not every information must meet your personal needs in order to be mentioned in the title. Edit: Also we are in a programming community, so this makes you double wrong.

MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml on 13 Dec 20:11 next collapse

ncdu is df but interactive.

nik9000@programming.dev on 13 Dec 21:32 next collapse

Thank you!

oscar@programming.dev on 15 Dec 03:22 collapse

Don’t you mean du?

MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml on 15 Dec 13:22 collapse

Maybe. I always confuse them, get a sccreen full of output and then use the other.

jlow@beehaw.org on 13 Dec 20:22 next collapse

Ohhh, it’s SeqeuiaiaeuoahahaiaView in the terminal, that’ll come in handy.

Love ncdu, so good.

eager_eagle@lemmy.world on 13 Dec 22:10 next collapse

dua is more like ncdu in rust, less stale too

github.com/Byron/dua-cli

vext01@lemmy.sdf.org on 14 Dec 07:59 collapse

Sadly unmaintained