JDiskReport : du for mortals
If you are an old UNIX hacker like mean you’ll have come across the du command. Its short for Disk Usage. Well du is fine for C programmers but the rest of us probably would prefer a gentler, friendlier tool. Enter stage left JDiskReport a wonderful little Java utility that scans your disk at any point you choose in the file tree and generates nice graphical report of disk usage in either a bar pie chart,
or as a bar chart,
You can also get a date modified distribution,
and a file size distribution,
Final sweet spot, it runs on just about anything.
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It’s pretty cool, but I also dig SpaceMonger for Windows machines. Nice interface.
Darren
May 23, 2006 at 12:15 am
Can’t grok space monger at the mo’ (I’m at home and Mac bound). I’ll take a look tomorrow…
Joe
May 23, 2006 at 12:27 am
Hi Darren,
Don’t grok SpaceMonger, the interface is “unsusual” aka idiosyncratic and non-intuitive. People can easily visually parse piecharts and barcharts but the nested structure of SpaceMonger is over complicated and attempts to display to much information at once.
Joe.
Joe
May 23, 2006 at 12:17 pm
FolderSize is a sweet explorer add-on. Useful to just see how big a folder is.
Sweetspot – opensource.
http://foldersize.sourceforge.net/
Damian
May 23, 2006 at 3:13 pm