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[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago

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

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

[–] eager_eagle 13 points 4 days ago

dua is more like ncdu in rust, less stale too

https://github.com/Byron/dua-cli

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

...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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

Sadly unmaintained

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

ncdu is df but interactive.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago