iotop
A top utility for IO (by Tomas-M)
dua-cli
View disk space usage and delete unwanted data, fast. (by Byron)
| iotop | dua-cli | |
|---|---|---|
| 4 | 27 | |
| 344 | 3,519 | |
| - | - | |
| 7.8 | 9.2 | |
| about 2 months ago | 8 days ago | |
| C | Rust | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
iotop
Posts with mentions or reviews of iotop.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-25.
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Looking for Rust Project Ideas for Semester Project - Any Suggestions?
Rewrite something like https://linux.die.net/man/1/iotop in Rust. Currently it is implemented in python, and running it as root does not give a warm fuzzy feeling.( I C version has also been made : https://github.com/Tomas-M/iotop but I have not reviewed that )
- HDD Disk health monitoring
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A little review of process (task) monitors and system info tools
Process monitoring is mandatory but CPU and I/O monitoring can be useful. It does a moveable window so I can watch it on a second monitor, along with other app windows, when the app I'm testing is running full screen so conky, although nice, is not quite what I need. In a terminal I use htop and/or iotop but I find graphical apps to be easier to read. I didn't want to have to compile anything or use Flatpak/Snap/AppImage/whatever but there's already a bunch of monitors in the repos so I checked them out and here's what I found.
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BTOP++ is a power resource monitor for Linux
I recommend the C reimplementation of iotop btw, it has lots more features and is more efficient and is maintained. It is packaged as iotop-c in Debian and other distros.
https://github.com/Tomas-M/iotop
dua-cli
Posts with mentions or reviews of dua-cli.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-08-26.
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Clean mount lists in Linux
Also `dua`[0] is a great `du` replacement which is must faster on modern NVMe drives. Also has an interactive mode `dua i` which I'd frame as a `ncdu` replacement.
[0] https://github.com/Byron/dua-cli
- FLaNK Stack Weekly 3 April 2023
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Erdtree v1.4.1 - the love child of `tree` and `du`, now with support for a configuration file to override defaults and more
Yeah erdtree won't scratch that itch if you prefer interactive apps. I personally wanted something to just give me quick visual info without spawning an entire terminal UI and learning its quirks. But if you're an ncdu person and are in the mood for a modern alternative I'd recommend checking out Dua
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erdtree v1.2.0, a modern multi-threaded alternative to `du` and `tree` now with support for globbing, icons, and more
Thank you! And totally understandable. erdtree won't scratch that itch for folks who have a penchant for interactive terminal apps. As I mentioned in another thread I've gotten a lot of mileage out of the original tree program so I wanted to keep the spirit of the thing. If you want a more modern version of ncdu perhaps you might like dua!
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what was the command that let you browse directories in terminal, also with file sizes shown
Can also try https://github.com/Byron/dua-cli
- Dua-CLI: View disk space usage and delete unwanted data, fast
- Ncdu – NCurses Disk Usage
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I wrote a "12 favourite terminal tools" list-article, what did I left out that should be absolutely included?
Another one I used for years until I found dua-cli. It can be run as a TUI with dua -i for a ncdu like interface.
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Command Line file managers that show other drives/locations?
dua - Tool written in Rust with interface similar to gdu (and ncdu)
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What CLI tool will blow your mind? (written in rust)
Dua was really useful for me https://github.com/Byron/dua-cli
What are some alternatives?
When comparing iotop and dua-cli you can also consider the following projects:
btop - A monitor of resources
ncdu - inofficial fork of "NCurses Disk Usage"
awesome-alternatives-in-rust - A curated list of replacements for existing software written in Rust
dust - A more intuitive version of du in rust
bpytop - Linux/OSX/FreeBSD resource monitor
fff - 📁 A simple file manager written in bash.
conky - Light-weight system monitor for X, Wayland (sort of), and other things, too
exa - A modern replacement for ‘ls’.
hardinfo - System profiler and benchmark tool for Linux systems
below - A time traveling resource monitor for modern Linux systems
vifm - Vifm is a file manager with curses interface, which provides Vim-like environment for managing objects within file systems, extended with some useful ideas from mutt.