Diskus Disk Usage Analyzer

Diskus is a simple, fast, and intuitive alternative to du -sh, written in Rust and designed to provide instant disk usage statistics for directories and files. Created by David Peter (sharkdp) in 2019, the same developer behind the popular bat and fd tools, diskus has over 900 stars as of 2026. Key features include: blazing fast performance (leveraging Rust and multi-threaded file system traversal with rayon for parallel directory scanning, typically 10x or more faster than the traditional du command on modern SSD and NVMe storage), simple output (displaying a single, clean summary of total disk usage in human-readable format like 12.3 GB, without the verbose and complex output of du), human-readable sizes (automatic size formatting with KB, MB, GB, and TB units, eliminating the need for the -h flag), symlink handling (configurable symlink following behavior for accurate accounting of linked files), hidden file inclusion (optionally including or excluding hidden files and directories in the scan), directory traversal depth (configurable maximum depth for partial directory scans when full traversal is not needed), file counting (optional file and directory count display alongside size information), color output (colored output for improved readability when outputting to a terminal), piped input support (accepting piped file lists for integration with other tools like find and fd), cross-platform (Windows, macOS, and Linux with consistent behavior across platforms), and zero configuration (sensible defaults requiring no configuration for immediate use, simply running diskus . in any directory).