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Re:Ncdu – NCurses Disk Usage by pilif on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @09:02AM (#33894413)
The other big advantage over just being a gui is that it Scans the filesystem ahead of time and keeps the data across your navigation into directories.

du will have to rescan as you traverse down the tree

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Re:Ncdu – NCurses Disk Usage by netsharc on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @09:26AM (#33894649)
The subsequent scans feel a lot faster, I suspect due to caching.
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