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Filelight: Where my disk space has gone?

Posted by zayed on · 2 comments
linuxcrunch.com; By Zayed
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One task that every one should do it is deleting useless files. If you do not, you will run out of disk space inevitably. Then, you will wonder where my disk space has gone? Filelight is the answer to you. Filelight creates an interactive map of concentric, segmented rings that help visualize disk usage on your computer. Like a pie-chart, but the segments nest, allowing you to easily see which files are taking up all your space.

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Great, but

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.

xdiskusage

Not as cool-looking but faster and more usable.

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