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Story: Filelight: Where my disk space has gone? Total Replies: 0
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hkwint

Jan 03, 2010
4:23 PM EST 		I really like this tool. However, I have two tiny issues with it:

-It takes 45 sec to index the 483,000 (that's 483k) files in /usr, but I blame Gentoo for that (half a million files, just for desktop use!), it would be great to have some 'slocate-like' indexing. In cron with nice -n 19 or so.

-When the graph is shown, the name of the dirs is not showed in the 'circle parts'. Instead, arrows / lines are used. Philesight does this nicer IMHO: http://zevv.nl/play/code/philesight/# and it can be run over servers / the net etc.

What is really great about Filelight on the other hand, is that it immediately stops indexing when I hit the 'stop' button. It also scales the graph when I increase the window size. What also is really interesting, is that the amount of detail decreases whenever I decrease the window size.

Apart from those two tiny issues, Filelight is on my top5 tool list, if ony I had one.

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