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 👍
check out
dua. I usually use it in interactive most which lets you navigate through the file system with visual representations of total dir/file size.Here is a screenshot randomly found from the github issues
I also recently found this gui program called
k4dirstatburied in the repos. There are a few more modern options but this one blows them all out of the park.Screenshot from the github repo:
Too bad they used such an ugly configuration for the screenshot… It allows you to modify the visualization to look better and display information differently. Anyway just thought I’d share as the project is old and little known.
thanks for sharing a screenshot of ncdu, should help others discover it
for the visualization itself IMHO Disk Usage Analyzer gives aesthetically pleasing results, not a fan of the UX but it works well enough to identify efficiently large files or directories
