Dust

du + rust = dust. Like du but more intuitive.

Why

Because I want an easy way to see where my disk is being used.

Demo

Install

Cargo

• cargo install du-dust

Download

• 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 one 'Did not have permissions message'.

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.

Usage

Usage: dust
Usage: dust <dir>
Usage: dust <dir>  <another_dir> <and_more>
Usage: dust -p <dir>  (full-path - does not shorten the path of the subdirectories)
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 instead of the default)
Usage: dust -d 3  <dir>  (shows 3 levels of subdirectories)
Usage: dust -r  <dir>  (reverse order of output, with root at the lowest)
Usage: dust -x  <dir>  (only show directories on the same filesystem)
Usage: dust -X ignore  <dir>  (ignore all files and directories with the name 'ignore')
Usage: dust -b <dir>  (do not show percentages or draw ASCII bars)

Alternatives

• NCDU
• dutree
• 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.