Parallel Disk Usage (pdu)

Highly parallelized, blazing fast directory tree analyzer.

Description

pdu is a CLI program that renders a graphical chart for disk usages of files and directories, it is a replacement of dust and dutree.

Both dust (v0.5.4) and dutree (v0.12.5) do not utilize the parallel computing capability of Rust to improve performance.

Benchmark

The benchmark was generated by a GitHub Workflow and uploaded to the release page.

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Demo

Development

Prerequisites

• cargo

Test

./test.sh && ./test.sh --release

Run

./run pdu "${arguments[@]}"

• "${arguments[@]}": List of arguments to pass to pdu.

Build

Debug build

cargo build --bin pdu

The resulting executable is located at target/debug/pdu.

Release build

cargo build --bin pdu --release

The resulting executable is located at target/release/pdu.

Update shell completion files

./generate-completions.sh

Extending parallel-disk-usage

The parallel-disk-usage crate is both a binary crate and a library crate. If you desire features that pdu itself lacks (that is, after you have asked the maintainer(s) of pdu for the features but they refused), you may use the library crate to build a tool of your own. The documentation for the library crate can be found in docs.rs.

Installation

Any Desktop OS

From GitHub

Go to the GitHub Release Page and download a binary.

From crates.io

Prerequisites:

• cargo

cargo install parallel-disk-usage --bin pdu

Arch Linux

From the Arch User Repository

Prerequisites:

• An AUR helper, such as paru

paru -S parallel-disk-usage-bin

paru -S parallel-disk-usage

From Khải's Pacman Repository

Follow the installation instruction then run the following command:

sudo pacman -S parallel-disk-usage

Distributions

Similar programs

• CLI:
  • du
  • dust
  • dutree
  • dua
• TUI:
  • ncdu
  • gdu
  • godu
• GUI:
  • GNOME's Disk Usage Analyzer, a.k.a. baobab
  • Filelight

License

Apache 2.0 © Hoàng Văn Khải.