graph of hard drive usage with filelight
a visual graph of hard drive usage
Filelight is a graphical representation of the storage in your computer. A visual graph of a partition’s space usage.
In slightly more technical terms, it’s a way to see how much of a partition is taken up by porn, movies, music, and all the other junk that wastes your misserable existence.
INSTALLING
filelight is a kde app. I suppose that means it uses some kde gui widgets etc. I first tried to install on fc4 via yum, but my yum was fucked up.
So, I used old school.. I sought a link to download the source code, and I use wget via the command line. As root..
cd /tmp wget http://methylblue.com/filelight/packages/filelight-1.0.tar.bz2 tar -xvf filelight-1.0.tar.bz2 cd filelight-1.0 cat INSTALL ./configure make make install exit
USAGE
Now run filelight ~/ to see your userspace.
You’ll notice the bottom right number going antsy.. it’s examining the contents of that filesystem treeslice ( ~/ in this case ).
If you wanted to just examine your mp3 dir, for example, you can fire up filelight with command line arguments ~/music.
On kde, I have [alt+f2] mapped to run a command, then I type out filelight ~/music as command, and I can see a very nice graphical example of this section of the drive.
AUDIENCE
Who's the suggested market? Who might find this useful?
If you have a ton of semi-important space on a partition(chunk of a hard drive) and you want to see what to slim down, get rid of, or burn to dvd- then get this tool.
There could be a ton of more legitimate uses.
ALTERNATIVES TO filelight
Yes, of course, most unixy distros already have the ability to do something similar.
Imagine you have a music directory and you want to see what’s what.. If you do regular
du -hs ~/music
, you just get a total. If you do
find ~/music -maxdepth 1 -type d -exec du -hs '{}' \;
You’ll get a nice listing of how much space is in each subdir of ~/music.
