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I tried it and think I'll keep using it mainly for the "See what takes space" mode (I haven't encountered an alternative that works in terminal, but I haven't looked, either).

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I use NCDU: https://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdu

Ncdu is very good as well. But little known.

It isn’t? When I was setting up my VPS I looked for a windirstat or wiztree alternative on linux and commandline and ncdu was the first thing I found.

I listed two other Rust tools I found very useful for this purpose here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22007350

That's why I wrote this: https://github.com/bootandy/dust Because it was frustrating to track down what had used disk space.

du -d 1 -h | sort -h

Remove the "-d 1" and that command gets even more useful. This is my preferred version of that trick:

   du -h | sort -hr | less

There is always "du | sort -nr | head"

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