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disktree
Find the thing eating the drive and delete it, without ever leaving the terminal.
People who live in a shell and would like their disk back.
- Built on
- Rust + NTFS MFT
- Runs locally
- On hardware you already own
- History
- 16 commits, in the open record
What it is
A disk usage analyser for the terminal in the spirit of WizTree and ncdu. Scan a drive or a folder, see a live size-sorted view of every directory, mark what you do not want, and send it to the Recycle Bin or delete it permanently.
It carries two scanners: a parallel directory walk that works anywhere, and — on an elevated NTFS volume — an MFT reader that streams the whole volume's metadata in a single pass. Deletion always sits behind a confirmation that lists the full path of everything about to go.
Capabilities
What it actually does.
People who live in a shell and would like their disk back.
Parallel walk scanner
Parallel walk scanner, plus an NTFS MFT reader for whole-volume scans in one pass
Live progress
Live progress and size-sorted directory view while the scan is still running
Multi-select marking
Multi-select marking with Recycle Bin or permanent deletion
Confirmation dialogs list
Confirmation dialogs list the full path of every item before anything is removed
How it works
3 moves, end to end.
This is how disktree works, not a set of steps you can follow yet — it is in development and not distributed.
Install it
disktree runs on your machine. There is no account to make and no service to depend on.
Point it at your work
It reads what you already have, in the formats you already keep it in.
Keep the result
Output stays where you put it. Nothing is uploaded to make the feature work.
Specification
Made of, and made when.
Read from the repository at build time rather than typed onto a marketing page.
- State
- In development
- Discipline
- Developer tooling
- Shape
- Installed software
- Started
- Jul 2026
- Last change
- Jul 2026
- Commits
- 16
- Rust
- NTFS MFT
- TUI
- Rust 100%
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