Disk Space Viewers

In Linux, and traditionally in Unix, the program to find files by any criteria you like is called "find". It can easily find files above some specified size starting at a folder you specify, and you can mix in other criteria like time of last modification, pattern of the filename (e.g. extension), etc.

The manpage originally said "BUGS: the syntax is awkward", but once you get used to it, it is quite powerful. It can even perform actions on the resulting files, like removing them.

find /path/to/folder -size +3G -mtime -7 -name '*.dat'

To find all .dat files in that folder that are above 3G and have been changed in the past 7 days.

find /path/to/folder -size +3G -mtime -7 -name '*.dat' -exec rm {} \;

to remove them.

probably spacemonger.

won't unzip :/

NT

For linux, consider k4dirstat.

rickman prodded the keyboard with:

What about "FSview" !

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Linux KDE "fsview" has similar behavior. Launch it from the command line in any directory, right-click to navigate.

There is a 3D fsv for linux, like Silicon Graphics' fsv in Jurassic Park :-) It dates back to 2001 and is not easy to bring up - it depends on libgtkgl which is kinda hard to find.

Cheers!

I stand corrected... Out of curiosity/nostalgia I tried getting fsv up and running. It works. Library libgtkgl is part of library gtkglarea.

Cheers!

du+xdu

TreeSize

It's free and very good.

Years ago there was a Norton Utility called diskview or something like that.

So what is wrong with just sorting the directory list by size in Windoze ? One click on the relevant column in File Manager does that.

Admittedly it wont recurse down the directory tree, but that is a different issue.

Dunno, I didn't have any trouble with it. Nice thing is you don't have to install it. Just run it, easy to use from a flash drive. But under Win 8 it's hard to get to the desktop.

I also tried WinDirStat and it's interesting. The window of size boxes don't have any text. Click on one and the other pane shows it to you in the file hierarchy like in windows explorer.

I thought I wouldn't like the highlights on the boxes. I didn't know why they would bother with that. But I realize it lets you see the boxes easily without boarders. The shading is very effective. Amazingly you can see many levels at the same time. Sometimes it is very slow to locate your file after clicking on it.

And what does that tell you? I don't see any sizes next to folders. I would have to explore the entire directory tree to find the large files. That reminds me too much of using DOS.

That is *the* issue.

Yeah, that was the one. Thanks

It runs fine on my Xubuntu 16.04 laptop via the most recent version of Wine available through the repository. :-)

When I get Linux up, I'll give that a try.

TreeSizeFree seems to do enough for my needs. YMMV

Linux for the home user has really come of age with the latest round of Ubuntu releases. My girlfriend and I both have Core i5 laptops with similar specs, hers running an old install of Win 10 that's become real sluggish over time, and mine with the Xubuntu install and a 256 gig SSD.

We had a race. It took her machine nearly 2 minutes to go from cold boot to a usable desktop. It took the Xubuntu machine 13 seconds. :D

On Linux&OS/X, I use "du |sort -n".

"du" by default lists the size of all directories (in blocks) in a recursive descent, and "sort -n" sorts them in numeric order. The starting point will be last, but the 2nd last will be the sub-dir that cumulatively contains the most. If there is a vast file four levels down, the last five entries list the path to it. That's nice.

Clifford Heath.

Yes, that is very useful. I always wonder why such a thing does not come with the Windows system. When you want to find where all your diskspace went, and don't want to install 3rd party tools that may not be trustworthy, you need to click a lot on folders to find it.