Tool to easily view disk space.

Ribs · Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2003 8:34 pm Post subject: Tool to easily view disk space.

Hi,

Just found out today that I'm practially out of disk space (The joys of my new broadband connection!). If there any graphical applications which would give me a good overview of where all my space is going?

I currently use Gnome, and nautilus isn't really up to the task. I discovered the "du -hs" command, but that will take a while to get a good overview on my system.

Thanks,
-Ribs.

idl · Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2003 9:04 pm Post subject:

shm · Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2003 9:10 pm Post subject:

filelight (http://www.methylblue.com/filelight/ also in portage) is an EXTREMELY good tool for this-- I reclaimed about ten GB of misc space after running it.
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tobechar · n00b Joined: 30 Oct 2003 Posts: 61 Location: Canada

If you are using KDE, click on Konsole, GNOME, use Terminal.

Type the following command:

shm · Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2003 9:45 pm Post subject:

zojas · Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2003 10:33 pm Post subject:

don't use df -h, just do this:

sawanv · Apprentice Joined: 05 Dec 2002 Posts: 238

If you use KDE, Kdiskfree is useful for this....
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splice · n00b Joined: 06 Dec 2002 Posts: 13

Or, for a much better way than the old du |sort -n trick (I use 'du -ak |sort -n' in those cases):

find /somefilesys -follow -mount -type f -print0 | xargs -0 ls -l | sort -r -n -k 5,5 | head -10

Of course, replace /somefilesys with the root from which you want to search, and head -10 with head -x, where x is the number of files you want displayed. This will give you the x (or in the example case, 10) biggest files found under the root provided. Credits go to Kyle Douglass, who provided the tip in the October Shell Corner (Miscellaneous Unix Tips IV) at unixreview.com.

LMCBoy · Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2003 3:05 am Post subject:

Konqueror in 3.2 has a plugin called "FSView" which shows a really cool graphical representation of your disk usage. It tiles the konqueror window with rectangles, each representing a directory, and each size is proportional to the directory's dusk usage. It's fully interactive, you can click on any rectangle to enter that directory to see more details about its subdirs. It's a bit slow, but a LOT faster than KDiskFree in my experience. Here's a screenie:

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sawanv · Apprentice Joined: 05 Dec 2002 Posts: 238

If you simply want to view total disk summary then the best way is

df -h

As noted above. Very useful for consoles, quick looks, ssh, etc.

That fsview stuff looks like one confusing mother!!!!

Sawan
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