Re: Bug#582321: TAG: dirsum -- commandline directory summary

[Peter Palfrader <weasel@debian.org>]

On Thu, 20 May 2010, Ron Johnson wrote:

> On 05/19/2010 05:36 PM, jaromil wrote:
>> * Package name : dirsum
>> Description: Dirsum is a command line tool to assist sorting out which
>> directories in a filesystem contain the most bytes.  It will sort
>> all of the subdirectories of a selected path according to the total
>> bytes of all files in them, including recursion through further
>> subdirectories and mounted partitions.
>>
>
> What does this do that existing tools don't?
>
> $ du -Sk | sort -nr | head -n10

Or, to compare it to something that my users can use too, what does it
offer over ncdu.

Cheers,
weasel
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