When I first left the Big Blue OS behind for the world of Linux, I wallowed in guesses over how my disk space was filling up. One thing that was hard to replace from my Windows XP days was the colorful pie chart of disk ingredients that resulted from right-clicking the lettered drive names. Linux offers numerous solutions for guessing at the amount of space consumed. Or is that displayed percentage of the amount of free space remaining? And is that cryptic sdf2 a USB drive, hard drive partition or DVD device?
KDirStat and the Windows port WinDirStat provide much better views with TreeMaps.
How about a comparative review?
http://kdirstat.sourceforge.net/
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Disk Usage Analyzer Has a Keen Eye for Sizing Up Space
Posted by: Jack M. Germain July 20, 2011 05:00 AMWhen I first left the Big Blue OS behind for the world of Linux, I wallowed in guesses over how my disk space was filling up. One thing that was hard to replace from my Windows XP days was the colorful pie chart of disk ingredients that resulted from right-clicking the lettered drive names. Linux offers numerous solutions for guessing at the amount of space consumed. Or is that displayed percentage of the amount of free space remaining? And is that cryptic sdf2 a USB drive, hard drive partition or DVD device?
How about a comparative review?
http://kdirstat.sourceforge.net/