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.
It’s pretty cool, but I also dig SpaceMonger for Windows machines. Nice interface.
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Can’t grok space monger at the mo’ (I’m at home and Mac bound). I’ll take a look tomorrow…
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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.
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FolderSize is a sweet explorer add-on. Useful to just see how big a folder is.
Sweetspot – opensource.
http://foldersize.sourceforge.net/
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