Debian Package a Day ([info]debaday) wrote,
@ 2004-07-23 08:00:00
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filelight - show where your diskspace is being used
Allows you to exactly understand exactly your disk usage by graphically representating your filesystem as a set of concentric segmented-rings.

This package was suggested Clement R.:
filelight is a great tool for [to] see where your precious disk space is wasted. It's really nice look and good usabilty makes it necessary.

Some pretty cool screenshots here and here.

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(Anonymous)
2004-07-23 10:38 am UTC (link)
http://www.jgoodies.com/freeware/jdiskreport/

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[info]piman
2004-07-23 11:59 am UTC (link)
Wow! It's uglier, requires proprietary Java, and is proprietary itself!

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tkdu
(Anonymous)
2004-07-23 03:43 pm UTC (link)
tkdu (http://unpythonic.net/jeff/tkdu/)

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open source (GPL)
cross platform (python)
small single file/script
can use output of du as input (du -a | tkdu)
acceptable to gnome fanatics ;-)

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large run-time (python)
static (delete a file? rerun tkdu)
bug with viewing root directory (/) or root of drive (C:\)
uses ugly tk (but hardly notice as user interface almost nonexistant)

best part for me: run "du -a /" as a nightly cronjob on a headless server, and graphically view its disk usage on a desktop whenever

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filelight is cool!
(Anonymous)
2004-07-28 05:24 am UTC (link)
I think filelight rocks! du is all well and good, and has its uses, but for me, on a laptop with limited HD space, this is really helpful.

thanks!

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Re: filelight is cool!
(Anonymous)
2004-07-31 06:07 am UTC (link)
I like treemaps, and recently found kdirstat to be a good start: http://packages.debian.org/kdirstat

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