Essential System Tools: dust – more intuitive version of du | Linux Today

Essential System Tools: dust – more intuitive version of du

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Aug 11, 2021

dust gives an instant overview of which directories are using disk space. Its name derives from the du command and that dust is written in Rust. dust is intended to be more intuitive than du. Like du, it’s published under an open-source license.

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