Do we have a Linux alternative for this?

[Hanj]

If you've every tried to find the largest files to clean up a cluttered hard drive, you know something like this (http://www.win.tue.nl/sequoiaview/) can save a lot of time. Really cool idea IMHO.

Now my question is, is there a linux (preferably open source) alternative for this little tool? The closest thing I can find is this java library (http://sourceforge.net/projects/treemap/). If no one can point me to a linux program like this, I think I'll write one myself

[SGC]

If you are using kubuntu, there is KDirStat (http://kdirstat.sourceforge.net/), it is in the universe repository:
apt-get install kdirstat

[BWF89]

Those look pretty cool.

[macgyver2]

SGC slipped in and posted while I was looking in Synaptic because I can never remember the name of the program even though it's come up in conversation several times in the past few weeks for me! :)


If no one can point me to a linux program like this, I think I'll write one myself
I say got for it...unless you use KDE or you don't mind that KDirStat is going to want you to install about 8 or 10 dependencies, some of them KDE library packages.

For a different layout idea, take a look at this (http://www.steffengerlach.de/freeware/). I've seen this in action on windows and I think the circular chart looks neat. The author provides Delphi sources...but I know nothing about Delphi and Linux.

[Kyral]

I believe there is also a program called File Light in the repos that does the same thing and doesn't rely on the KDE Libs

[macgyver2]

I believe there is also a program called File Light in the repos that does the same thing and doesn't rely on the KDE Libs
Still wants me to install pretty much the same stuff that KDirStat wants. :neutral: But on the plus side it does have the look I prefer! Thanks for the heads up.

[dcraven]

There is a little program called Baobab (http://www.gnomefiles.com/app.php?soft_id=1002) that does something similar, but focuses on directories, not the files. If you wanted to write something that does files too may I suggest contacting the Baobab author? It's a fairly new project from what I can tell and may be easily extended.

Have a look, the author might just love the help!

Cheers,
~djc

[sooqing]

erm.. read somewhere u can actually uses tools like du, find, etc.. to find the largest files?

[Hanj]

KDirStatThat's what I'm talking about. Too bad it's KDE :? Same goes for Filelight. Gnome should have a program for this.


There is a little program called Baobab that does something similarSeems to me it only creates a list over the directories and sorts them after size? Guess you could extend it with a treemap though. I'll take a look at the source code, and maybe contact the author.


erm.. read somewhere u can actually uses tools like du, find, etc.. to find the largest files?Yeah, you could of course. But these treemaps provide a much better overview. Plus they look cool :)

[drizek]

open a folder in konqueror

view- filesize view

i think that is what you are looking for. its alredy included in kibuntu.

Edit: screenie http://img280.imageshack.us/img280/7426/snapshot21bk.th.png (http://img280.imageshack.us/my.php?image=snapshot21bk.png)

[Hanj]

Looks like there are several KDE tools for this. Haven't seen any for gnome yet though.

[wmcbrine]

There's an old generic X tool to do this, but I can't remember the name. Generally I just do:

du | sort -n | less

[jnoreiko]

Well... this is on windows, but it's free :D (but only as in beer)

http://www.jgoodies.com/freeware/jdiskreport/

[Hanj]

Well, I've been talking a little to the author of Baobab, and I think I am going to write a module for his program to view directories as treemap diagrams. Baobab also has some integration into Nautilus (through a bash script), and hopfully this can be improved in the future.

If I ever finish this module, I'll post here to get some opinions on it.

[Stormy Eyes]

There's an old generic X tool to do this, but I can't remember the name. Generally I just do:

du | sort -n | less

I do the same, though I throw the --si switch onto du to get my sizes in units I'm used to, so it looks like this:


du --si | sort -n | less

[wmcbrine]

I do the same, though I throw the --si switch onto du to get my sizes in units I'm used to, so it looks like this:


du --si | sort -n | less
The problem with that is, it breaks the numerical sort -- k, M and G get mixed together.