# dundee/gdu

> Console-based disk usage analyzer written in Go, optimized for SSDs via parallel processing. Shows which files and directories take up the most space.

- Magnitude: 1.3 out of 10 — Steady
- Stars: 6,071 total · +1 star measured 2026-10-06, 11:46–14:24 UTC, ≈ 3 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Developer tools · Language: Go · License: MIT · Created: 2018-02-24 · Last push: 2026-10-05
- GitHub: https://github.com/dundee/gdu · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/dundee/gdu

## Useful for

- Find the largest files and directories on disk via the interactive interface
- Export a disk usage report to JSON for later analysis
- Exclude system directories like /proc and /sys when scanning the root

## Why it’s here

- Star-counter measurements on 2026-10-06 (UTC), 11:46–14:24: 6070 → 6071 stars (+1). This is the change over that interval.
- Estimated end-of-day forecast: about +3 stars, using observed gains and the previous day.
- GitHub Trending Go today: #14, +9 stars.

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 237
- Issues and pull requests: 646
- Watchers: 26
- Average over the last week: 6 per day
- Usual pace: 3 per day
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 1
- Latest release: v5.38.0 (2026-10-05)

## Stars per day, last 30 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-09-07 … 2026-10-06: 3, 3, 1, 3, 2, 1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 3, 0, 8, 4, 4, 2, 4, 7, 5, 3, 2, 5, 2, 7, 7, 3, 3, 10, 12, 1

## Spotted in now

- GitHub Trending Go today: #14, +9 stars

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   A Rust CLI that shows which directories and files use disk space as colored bars instead of du output, automatically sorting and limiting to the largest entries.
   Full card: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/bootandy/dust.md
2. **henrydennis/petal** — 0.7 · Cooling · Apps · Rust · +1 star measured 2026-10-06, 00:24–14:28 UTC, ≈ 2 by evening
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   Full card: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/henrydennis/petal.md

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Magnitude (0–10) measures how fast and how unusually interest in a repository is growing right now. It is not a quality score.
Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-10-06 14:31 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.