Hi all,
Me again, I’ve been wanting to create a scanning tool to get detailed information about file systems to aid in the design of Veeam unstructured backups for a while. I created this tool a few years ago but I thought I’d dust it off and with the help of Claude make it something that the community can use. As always I’ve written it in Rust as it provides fast, multi-threaded scanning.
https://github.com/shapedthought/fast-walk
It provides file system information in the following files:
results-20260801-160000.csv totals per extension
results-20260801-160000-age.csv totals per age band
results-20260801-160000-size.csv totals per size band
results-20260801-160000-hotspots.csv directories holding the most small files
results-20260801-160000-largest.csv the largest files found
It also provides the information in the terminal:
It also allows you to compare scans to get an idea of change rate over time:
I’m looking for testing and feedback on different file systems of which there is an issues form you can use to input the information.
As always if you like the project please give the project a GitHub star!
Keep coding :D
Ed
