rdu - another disk usage utility

Installation

Binaries

rdu has prebuilt binaries for Linux and macOS on amd64 and arm64.

You can install it easily by using these commands:

wget https://git.rznet.fr/tchivert/rdu/releases/download/latest/rdu-<os>-<arch> -O /usr/local/bin/rdu
chmod +x /usr/local/bin/rdu

Exemple for an amd64 linux machine:

wget https://git.rznet.fr/tchivert/rdu/releases/download/latest/rdu-linux-amd64 -O /usr/local/bin/rdu
chmod +x /usr/local/bin/rdu

Debian-based distributions

You can install rdu by downloading directly the latest .deb:

wget https://git.rznet.fr/tchivert/rdu/releases/download/latest/rdu-amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i rdu-amd64.deb

Usage

Usage: rdu [-h] [-v] [-x] [-n] [-s] [-d <size>] [-t <threads>] [-k <top>] <dir>
Options:
  -h  Show this help message
  -v  Verbose
  -x  Scan current filesystem only
  -n  Non-interactive
  -s  Silent mode (no output)
  -d  Minimum dir size (default: 0, no filter)
  -t  Max threads
  -k  Top N output results (default: 8)

It can be used interactively (like in the screenshot above), or non-interactively (-n flag) to output a summary of the results.

For example:

$ rdu -x -n /var/www/mirror.rznet.fr
Scanning /var/www/mirror.rznet.fr...

Scanned 31681 items

Directories:

 106.9G  /archlinux/pool/packages
  16.6G  /endeavouros/iso
   8.1G  /archlinux/iso
   6.1G  /archlinux/images
   2.7G  /archlinux/iso/2025.11.01
   2.7G  /archlinux/iso/2025.10.01
   2.7G  /archlinux/iso/2025.09.01
   1.2G  /archlinux/iso/2025.11.01/arch

Files:

   3.0G  /endeavouros/iso/EndeavourOS_Mercury-2025.02.08.iso
   2.9G  /endeavouros/iso/EndeavourOS_Mercury-Neo-2025.03.19.iso
   2.9G  /archlinux/pool/packages/texlive-doc-2025.2-2-any.pkg.tar.zst
   2.8G  /archlinux/pool/packages/dotnet-source-built-artifacts-6.0-6.0.36.sdk136-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
   2.8G  /endeavouros/iso/EndeavourOS_Endeavour_neo-2024.09.22.iso
   2.7G  /endeavouros/iso/EndeavourOS_Endeavour-2024.06.25.iso
   2.7G  /endeavouros/iso/EndeavourOS_Gemini-2024.04.20.iso
   2.6G  /endeavouros/iso/EndeavourOS_Galileo-Neo-2024.01.25.iso

Extensions:

 107.6G  .zst
  20.8G  .iso
   6.1G  .qcow2
   2.8G  .sfs
 667.6M  .img
 391.0M  .wsl
  60.1M  .old
  59.0M  .gz

Total: 138.5G (31681 items)

Acknowledgements

• gdamore/tcell - Terminal UI library

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for more information.