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 👍

  • aname
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    21 year ago

    Or head instead of less to get the top entries

    • DigitalDilemma
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      11 year ago

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