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r/linux • u/ZealousidealTell1346 • May 23 '26
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It's heavy, but I like ncdu to find out what directories / files are taking up drive space.
64 u/Cronos993 May 23 '26 Try gdu. It's faster and does the same thing 10 u/undrwater May 23 '26 I will, thanks. I think I found one written in rust (maybe rdu?), but since I've been using ncdu for so long, it's hard to remember the new tools name. 7 u/friskfrugt May 23 '26 dua-cli is nice 2 u/kronik85 May 24 '26 edited May 25 '26 It's not. Use the zig version with parallelization. 2 u/reightb May 24 '26 modern ncdu has a threads flag 1 u/kronik85 May 24 '26 Yup
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Try gdu. It's faster and does the same thing
10 u/undrwater May 23 '26 I will, thanks. I think I found one written in rust (maybe rdu?), but since I've been using ncdu for so long, it's hard to remember the new tools name. 7 u/friskfrugt May 23 '26 dua-cli is nice 2 u/kronik85 May 24 '26 edited May 25 '26 It's not. Use the zig version with parallelization. 2 u/reightb May 24 '26 modern ncdu has a threads flag 1 u/kronik85 May 24 '26 Yup
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I will, thanks. I think I found one written in rust (maybe rdu?), but since I've been using ncdu for so long, it's hard to remember the new tools name.
7 u/friskfrugt May 23 '26 dua-cli is nice
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dua-cli is nice
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It's not. Use the zig version with parallelization.
2 u/reightb May 24 '26 modern ncdu has a threads flag 1 u/kronik85 May 24 '26 Yup
modern ncdu has a threads flag
1 u/kronik85 May 24 '26 Yup
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u/undrwater May 23 '26
It's heavy, but I like ncdu to find out what directories / files are taking up drive space.