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Dust is the modern equivalent of du, and is much faster returning results particularly on solid-state disks thanks to its utilization of parallel processing. It simply "does the right thing" when handling large numbers of small files and directories by keeping the output simple and only showing large entries. Beyond the speed benefits, it's worth noting that tools like ncdu or baobab give a view of directory sizes but abstract away where the largest individual files are. Dust remedies this by isolating the largest files explicitly within a visual tree hierarchy. Merging dust allows supplying a highly intuitive, fast alternative to du for users targeting modern storage layouts. Signed-off-by: John Audia <therealgraysky@proton.me>
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Wait... this is somehow similar to gdu, right? Why do we need to have two packages doing the same? |
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They are different tools. This is closest to |
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Dust is the modern equivalent of du, and is much faster returning results particularly on solid-state disks thanks to its utilization of parallel processing. It simply "does the right thing" when handling large numbers of small files and directories by keeping the output simple and only showing large entries.
Beyond the speed benefits, it's worth noting that tools like ncdu or baobab give a view of directory sizes but abstract away where the largest individual files are. Dust remedies this by isolating the largest files explicitly within a visual tree hierarchy. Merging dust allows supplying a highly intuitive, fast alternative to du for users targeting modern storage layouts.
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