From 9bd2f9fc2a46ad96f45e8baa8793b2a6706e5673 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "andy.boot" Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2021 10:01:10 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Update README.md --- README.md | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index afb2f79..1918807 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -38,6 +38,8 @@ Dust is meant to give you an instant overview of which directories are using dis Dust will list a slightly-less-than-the-terminal-height number of the biggest subdirectories or files and will smartly recurse down the tree to find the larger ones. There is no need for a '-d' flag or a '-h' flag. The largest subdirectories will be colored. +The different colors: The shades of grey are used to indicate which parent folder a subfolder belongs to. For instance, look at the above screenshot. `.steam` is a folder taking 44% of the space from the current folder. Inside `.steam` is a folder called `steam` (no dot) this folder takes up 36% of disk, but that means 8% of disk is taken by a different subfolders or files inside `.steam` but not in `steam` (no dot), these files & subfolders aren't listed as they are small. + ## Usage ```