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This is a pretty awesome way to visualise filesizes of various things... never seen it before..

• stilist 16y ago
  http://grandperspectiv.sourceforge.net/ http://grandperspectiv.sourceforge.net/
  • mcantelon 16y ago
    ...And for the Windows community: http://www.sixty-five.cc/sm/ http://www.sixty-five.cc/sm/ Is there a Linux equivalent?
    • xutopia 16y ago
      du -hs /home/* | sort -k 1,1 /edit typo
      • _delirium 16y ago
        Hmm, that and the Mac and Windows utilities linked don't seem to be doing what's needed to generate this Chrome view, though. The Chrome binary is a single file on disk, and this treeview is digging into it to figure out which components contribute to the final size of the statically linked binary.
    • ChRoss 16y ago
      I use WinDirStat for Windows http://windirstat.sourceforge.net/ http://windirstat.sourceforge.net/
    • sparky 16y ago
      I use KDirStat http://kdirstat.sourceforge.net/ http://kdirstat.sourceforge.net/
      • slug 16y ago
        Someone is working on a kde4 port, see comments at http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php/KDirStat?content=10159 http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php/KDirStat?content=10159 Gnome also comes with something similar.
    • eklitzke 16y ago
      In addition to the standard 'du' command, which you can sort and munge with the standard unix stuff, Gnome has bundled the 'baobab' utility for the last few releases (so if you're on a relatively recent Gnome release, you probably already have it installed). It has an interactive "rings" view and a "treemap" view, which are both pretty nifty.
    • decklin 16y ago
      I've always stuck with du | xdu. Except for the primitive rendering it is rather reminiscent of webtreemap (or vice versa, i guess) -- click to dive down, top to go back up.
    • junkbit 16y ago
      You can get a pretty interactive treemap of the linux filesytem using http://gdmap.sourceforge.net/ http://gdmap.sourceforge.net/ [screenshot] http://gdmap.sourceforge.net/img/gdmap-preview.png http://gdmap.sourceforge.net/img/gdmap-preview.png You can also see a treemap of the kernel although it is static http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/millionvis/Treemap_Visualization_of_the_Linux_Kernel_2_5_33.html http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/millionvis/Treemap_Visualization_...
    • tonfa 16y ago
      For Gnome, it's called baobab (in Applications -> Accessories -> Disk Usage Analyzer).
    • ZeroGravitas 16y ago
      In Ubuntu the default "Disk Usage Analyser" (the projeect name is "Boabab") in Applications -> Accessories does this. By default it's a ring chart but there's a menu to select treemap instead. The authors seem to believe that treemaps are good for comparing only size, but the ring chart shows hierarchy well too. http://www.marzocca.net/linux/baobab/baobab-ringschart.html http://www.marzocca.net/linux/baobab/baobab-ringschart.html http://www.marzocca.net/linux/baobab/baobab-treemaps.html http://www.marzocca.net/linux/baobab/baobab-treemaps.html
• mcantelon 16y ago
  It's very handy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treemapping http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treemapping
• acqq 16y ago
  For displaying files on the disk it's actually patented. http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/5987469.html http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/5987469.html Estimated Expiration Date: May 13, 2017
  • troutwine 16y ago
    Interesting. My first thought on finishing your post was "How rude; you've tainted us all with the knowledge of a that patent." Evidence of manners in the making I suppose; adaptation of custom in the face of seemingly immovable, shared burdens.
    • WalterGR 16y ago
      "How rude; you've tainted us all with the knowledge of a that patent." What is required to prove willful patent infringement? Is "Defendant's web history shows (s)he accessed a web page on which someone claimed the patent existed" sufficient? EDIT: "Defendant", not "plaintiff".
    • acqq 16y ago
      In most development scenarios you are actually interested to know which patents can potentially get you sued so please explain how exactly is the awareness of the patent existence of the disadvantage to you.
      • duskwuff 16y ago
        Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patent_infringement_under_United_States_law http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patent_infringement_under_Unite...): > If an infringer is found to have deliberately infringed a patent (i.e. "willful" infringement), then punitive damages can be assessed up to three times the actual damages. Legal fees can also be assessed. If it cannot be proven that an infringer had knowledge of the patent, though, the damages that can be assessed are substantially lower.
        • acqq 16y ago