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A more intuitive version of du in rust

23 mentions on Hacker News by 20 people: 6 stories, 17 comments · first 2018-04-13 · latest 2026-08-16

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  1. dust: https://github.com/bootandy/dust - This has ben immensely useful for me
    comment by vismit2000 · 2026-08-16
  2. I can't recommend `dust` enough: https://github.com/bootandy/dust
    comment by seabrookmx · 2026-04-07 · in Running out of disk space in production
  3. …run GrandPerspective (GUI app, https://grandperspectiv.sourceforge.net/ ), or dust (terminal app, https://github.com/bootandy/dust ), to give me an idea of what is going on with disk usage.
    comment by millerm · 2026-03-02 · in Anthropic Cowork feature creates 10GB VM bundle on macOS without warning
  4. …duf is a cleaner df: https://github.com/muesli/duf dust for du: https://github.com/bootandy/dust Also fish + starship + yazi + helix, all of which mostly work perfectly with the defaults
    comment by theshrike79 · 2025-10-20 · in Bat v0.26.0
  5. …these little tools ( https://github.com/zyedidia/eget ) dust - fd is to find as dust is to du ( https://github.com/bootandy/dust ) yank - nice to quickly copy things from the command line ( https://github.com/mptre/yank )
    comment by KneeAwn · 2024-10-09 · in Command Line Tools I Like (2022)
  6. ▲ 396
    Show HN: Dut – a fast Linux disk usage calculator
    story by 201984 · 2024-07-10 · 148 comments
  7. Other Linux implementations: - https://github.com/bootandy/dust (command line, extremely fast) - mate-disk-usage-analyzer (gui/gtk, a bit more intuitive and allows operating on files too).
    comment by WhyNotHugo · 2024-05-23 · in WinDirStat – Windows Directory Statistics
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    Dust Hits Version 1.0.0
    story by andy_boot · 2024-03-26 · 1 comment
  9. …cd to, and you can then do a partial match like "z hel" might take you to "~/projects/helloworld". https://github.com/bootandy/dust is a compliment to "du", shows which directories are using the most disk space.
    comment by bloopernova · 2024-03-21 · in Difftastic, a structural diff tool that understands syntax
  10. tl;dr: - zsh+ohmyzsh - fdfind github.com/sharkdp/fd - duf github.com/muesli/duf "better df" - dust github.com/bootandy/dust "more intuitive du" - tldr github.com/tldr-pages/tldr-python-client tldr client in python - ripgrep…
    comment by xrayarx · 2023-02-20 · in The Most Useful Command Line Tools (2023 Edition)
  11. …for large files while it was happening but knowing what was doing it would've been a big help. [1] https://github.com/bootandy/dust
    comment by brigandish · 2023-02-17 · in Sloth – A Mac app that shows all open files, directories, sockets, etc.
  12. dua: https://github.com/Byron/dua-cli dust: https://github.com/bootandy/dust
    comment by 0x00101010 · 2022-12-07 · in Ncdu – NCurses Disk Usage
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    Dust: A more intuitive version of du in rust
    story by homarp · 2021-09-19 · 0 comments
  14. ▲ 2
    Du and Rust = Dust
    story by drran · 2021-07-25 · 0 comments
  15. In Rust, it's easy: https://github.com/bootandy/dust/blob/master/src/dir_walker.... (Dust is "du + rust").
    comment by drran · 2021-07-25 · in Ncdu 2: Less hungry and more Ziggy
  16. I can vouch for ncdu...does one thing and does it well. Also see: https://github.com/jarun/nnn/ https://github.com/bootandy/dust > There is, after all, nothing more annoying than having to get re-acquainted with every piece of software…
    comment by ducktective · 2021-07-25 · in Ncdu 2: Less hungry and more Ziggy
  17. also dust https://github.com/bootandy/dust
    comment by nextaccountic · 2020-09-28 · in Duf: Disk Usage/Free Utility
  18. Already done, (un)fortunately: https://github.com/bootandy/dust
    comment by ComputerGuru · 2020-09-27 · in Duf: Disk Usage/Free Utility
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    Dust: A more intuitive version of du in rust
    story by bryanrasmussen · 2020-06-16 · 0 comments
  20. I prefer https://github.com/bootandy/dust , more lightweight
    comment by dnpp123 · 2020-05-21 · in Sort of handy
  21. dust (du + rust) [1] makes for a good oss alternative. [1] https://github.com/bootandy/dust
    comment by weiming · 2020-04-01 · in Omni Group Layoffs
  22. That's why I wrote this: https://github.com/bootandy/dust Because it was frustrating to track down what had used disk space.
    comment by andy_boot · 2020-01-09 · in Broot – A new way to see and navigate directory trees
  23. ▲ 3
    Show HN: Dust: A more intuitive version of du in rust
    story by andy_boot · 2018-04-13 · 0 comments