Dust is a rewrite of du (in rust obviously) that visualizes your directory tree and what percentage each file takes up. But it only prints as many files fit in your terminal height, so you see only the largest files. It’s been a better experience that du, which isn’t always easy to navigate to find big files (or atleast I’m not good at it.)

Anyway, found a log file at .local/state/nvim/log that was 70gb. I deleted it. Hope it doesn’t bite me. Been pushing around 95% of disk space for a while so this was a huge win 👍

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      1 year ago

      Try dua. It’s like ncdu but uses multiple threads so it’s a lot faster., especially on SSDs.

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      I install ncdu on any machine I set up, because installing it when it’s needed may be tricky