Ncdu takes ages to run on my system, its like 500GB+ of storage space, but it takes roughly an hour to finish scanning, probably a bit less, is there any alternative which either constantly monitors my files so it always knows the sizes for me to navigate or is significantly faster than Ncdu?
du-dustis a Rust crate, high performance disk usage tool. Scans terabytes in seconds.I can confirm that.
Also use dust. Great for visualizing directory trees of where all the bigger files lie.
Taking an hour doesn’t sound right. Is it a disk or solid state? Do you have an unusual amount of directory hierarchy?
If you have a disk, does it have SMARTT errors reported?
Which filesystem are you using?
Yeah I don’t think this is an ncdu issue but something is now broken with the OPs system.
Gdu is faster
I’m using baobab here, it scans my 500GB in a few seconds
Are you using
ncduorncdu_2? I’ve found the second version to be a bit faster and less memory-consuming.I’d like to know as well, but it seems strange for ncdu to take that long. I scan through terrabytes within a few seconds.
Is there a reason to not just use du? Or use either and just look at certain trees? Or just get a bigger drive so it does not matter?
dua iDua works pretty great for me
dua i Is the command i use for interactive session I use it on my 4TB drive it takes roughly it analyses in a few seconds. It’s biggest directories first.