Dut

great app. very fast at scanning nested dirs. I often need recursive disk usage when I suddenly run out of space and scramble to clean up while everything is crashing.

Nice job. I've been using dua[0] and have found it to be quite fast on my MacBook Pro. I'm interested to see how this compares. [0] https://github.com/Byron/dua-cli

GPLv3, you love to see it. Great work.

Neat, a new C program! I get a little frisson of good vibes whenever someone announces a new project in C, as opposed to Rust or Python or Go. Even though C is pretty much a lost…

I've been using my own function with `du` for ages now, similar to others here, but I appreciate new tools in this space. I gave `dut` a try, but I'm confused by its output. For…

dut looks very nice. One small surprise I found came when I have a symlink to a directory and refer to that with a trailing "/". dut doesn't follow the link in order to scan the…

I benchmarked against dua while developing, and the results are in the README. Note that dut uses Linux-specific syscalls, so it won't run on MacOS. TL;DR: dut is 3x faster with…

Would be great to have a TUI interface for browsing like ncdu.

Looks nice, although a feature I like in ncdu is the 'd' key to delete the currently highlighted file or directory.

> but I don't like how unintuitive the readout is The best disk usage UI I ever saw was this one: https://www.trishtech.com/2013/10/scanner-display-hard-disk-usage-in-chart-form/…

Someone, please create a Gdut, a fork that will produce graphs for a quick and easy way to read, it’s almost impossible to read in small vertical screens.

I always want treemaps. console: rust: cargo install diskonaut python: pip install ohmu GUI: gdmap windows: windirstat mac: grand perspective (I seem to r call)

I often want to know who there is a sudden growth disk usage over the last month/week/etc, what suddenly take space. In those cases I find myself wishing that du and friends…

What I need is a du that caches the results somewhere and then does not rescan the 90% of dirs that have not changed when I run it again a month later...

I'm away from my Linux machine now but I'm curious whether/how you handle reflinks. On a supported file system such as Btrfs which I use, how does `cp --reflink` gets counted?…

Why C and not Rust or even Zig?

Looks nice, although a feature I like in ncdu is the 'd' key to delete the currently highlighted file or directory.

Ncdu is easy to remember and use, clicking through etc. would be cool to find a faster replacement, same usage instead of a new tool with parameters to remember..

Nice job. I've been using dua[0] and have found it to be quite fast on my MacBook Pro. I'm interested to see how this compares. [0] https://github.com/Byron/dua-cli

Nice work! There is also gdu[1], where the UI is heavily inspired by ncdu and somehow feels way faster... 1: https://github.com/dundee/gdu

I have been using diskonaut, its fast enough given that it also produces a nice visual output.

On Windows I always used to use Windirstat but it was slow, then I found Wiztree which is many orders of magnitude faster. I understand it works by directly reading the NTFS…

Something like that exists for btrfs; it's called bdtu. It has the accuracy/time trade-off you're interested in, but the implementation is quite different. It samples random…