Dust

du + rust = dust. Like du but more intuitive

Install

• Download linux / mac binary from Releases
• unzip file: tar -xvf downloaded_file.tar.gz
• move file to executable path: sudo mv dust /usr/local/bin/

Overview

Dust is meant to give you an instant overview of which directories are using disk space without requiring sort or head. Dust will print a maximum of 1 'Did not have permissions message'.

Dust will list the 15 biggest sub directories 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 sub directory will have its size shown in red

Usage

Usage: dust <dir>
Usage: dust <dir> <another_dir> <and_more>
Usage: dust -s <dir> (apparent-size - shows the length of the file as opposed to the amount of disk space it uses)
Usage: dust -n 30  <dir>  (Shows 30 directories not 15)

djin:git/dust> dust
  65M  .
  65M └─┬ ./target
  49M   ├─┬ ./target/debug
  26M   │ ├─┬ ./target/debug/deps
  21M   │ │ └── ./target/debug/deps/libclap-9e6625ac8ff074ad.rlib
  13M   │ ├── ./target/debug/dust
 8.9M   │ └─┬ ./target/debug/incremental
 6.7M   │   ├─┬ ./target/debug/incremental/dust-2748eiei2tcnp
 6.7M   │   │ └─┬ ./target/debug/incremental/dust-2748eiei2tcnp/s-ezd6jnik5u-163pyem-1aab9ncf5glum
 3.0M   │   │   └── ./target/debug/incremental/dust-2748eiei2tcnp/s-ezd6jnik5u-163pyem-1aab9ncf5glum/dep-graph.bin
 2.2M   │   └─┬ ./target/debug/incremental/dust-1dlon65p8m3vl
 2.2M   │     └── ./target/debug/incremental/dust-1dlon65p8m3vl/s-ezd6jncecv-1xsnfd0-4dw9l1r2th2t
  15M   └─┬ ./target/release
 9.2M     ├─┬ ./target/release/deps
 6.7M     │ └── ./target/release/deps/libclap-87bc2534ea57f044.rlib
 5.9M     └── ./target/release/dust

Performance

dust is currently about 4 times slower than du.

Alternatives

• NCDU
• du -d 1 -h | sort -h

Note: Apparent-size is calculated slightly differently in dust to gdu. In dust each hard link is counted as using file_length space. In gdu only the first entry is counted.