[GH-ISSUE #346] Feature request: disk on all local disks #158

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zhus commented

2026-06-08 11:25:55 +03:00

Originally created by @stepancheg on GitHub (Nov 15, 2023).
Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/bootandy/dust/issues/346

There can be multiple local disks (or partitions of the disk like APFS volumes).

Would be convenient if dust had a flag like dust --all-local-disks to get output combined from all of them.

Currently the second best option is something like

mount | grep /dev/disk | grep apfs | awk '{ print $3 }' | sudo xargs dust -x

Originally created by @stepancheg on GitHub (Nov 15, 2023). Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/bootandy/dust/issues/346 There can be multiple local disks (or partitions of the disk like APFS volumes). Would be convenient if dust had a flag like `dust --all-local-disks` to get output combined from all of them. Currently the second best option is something like ``` mount | grep /dev/disk | grep apfs | awk '{ print $3 }' | sudo xargs dust -x ```

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zhus commented

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@bootandy commented on GitHub (Nov 16, 2023):

it's an interesting idea. I'm not sure how I would detect which file-systems should be included in 'all-local-disks' though.

@bootandy commented on GitHub (Nov 16, 2023): it's an interesting idea. I'm not sure how I would detect which file-systems should be included in 'all-local-disks' though.

zhus commented

2026-06-08 11:25:56 +03:00

@stepancheg commented on GitHub (Nov 16, 2023):

I'm not sure how it can be done cross-platform. Perhaps some per-OS logic can be implemented. For macOS it can be this.

For macOS I guess the algorithm is this:

run diskutil list to find all real disks (excluding images) and partitions on them
then mount to find the mount roots for these local disks

For Linux it might be more complicated because ecosystem is much larger.

@stepancheg commented on GitHub (Nov 16, 2023): I'm not sure how it can be done cross-platform. Perhaps some per-OS logic can be implemented. For macOS it can be this. For macOS I guess the algorithm is this: * run `diskutil list` to find all real disks (excluding images) and partitions on them * then `mount` to find the mount roots for these local disks For Linux it might be more complicated because ecosystem is much larger.

zhus commented

2026-06-08 11:25:56 +03:00

@bootandy commented on GitHub (Jan 10, 2024):

I'm going to close this I'm not sure how I can do this.

@bootandy commented on GitHub (Jan 10, 2024): I'm going to close this I'm not sure how I can do this.

zhus commented

2026-06-08 11:25:56 +03:00

@stepancheg commented on GitHub (Jan 10, 2024):

Not sure can be done universally, but for macos I have shown the command.

Anyway, thank you for the great tool!

@stepancheg commented on GitHub (Jan 10, 2024): Not sure can be done universally, but for macos I have shown the command. Anyway, thank you for the great tool!

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Reference: bootandy/archived-dust#158