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Hi,

I'm using btrfs and btrfs-subvolumes are classified as cross-filesystem, while they aren't really. This causes a dirstat / to return a tiny 37KiB html and 1.1KiB json.

dirstat doesn't even recurse into /etc, /opt and /usr which aren't even a subvolume, but just regular folders.

I DO get the message Skipping "/bin" (not a directory nor a regular file), which true, it is a symlink to /usr/bin which is normal for ubuntu. But I only get the message for /bin

In addition: btrfs supports extent-sharing, so with btrfs fi du <file> I can check the total size of a file, the amount that is shared with other files and the space used exclusively by this file. It would be nice if we got support for that aswell, but I fully understand if that is too complex

As specified in the README, scanning directories with many files can take a long time and leads to a large report.
However, scanning a large directory or a full disk can be very interesting.
Maybe an option to build non-recursive reports could be interesting.
This would be a report with top-level files and folders only.