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Tue, 25 Jan 2005
Where did that disk space go ?
Like many people I invariably find myself running out of disk space, or perhaps more accurately accumulating data to fill that available. I've long thought some sort of graphical tool to let you see where you're using space would be handy. Last time I looked (a couple of years ago I guess) there was nothing out there and I baulked at writing my own, simpler to get a bigger disk :)
Things were again reaching crisis point on the Thinkpad so went looking again, and sure enough, there is this great utility for KDE called filelight It gives you a very easy to grasp graphical display of space usage for an arbitrary directory using sectors of concentric circles. As you hover over them you get stats for the specific area and can decend into directories by clicking. It's way easier to use than describe actually, a screenshot from my mail directory is shown below.
So... apt-get install filelight :)