Disk Usage Analyser (also known as baobab) is a graphical, menu-driven application that you can use to view and monitor your disk usage and folder structure. It is a GNOME based application and a component module of the gnome-utils package.
Disk Usage Analyser can scan either the whole filesystem tree, or a specific user-requested directory branch (local or remote).
This utility also auto-detects in real-time any changes made to your home directory as far as any mounted/unmounted device. Disk Usage Analyser also provides a full graphical treemap window for each selected folder.
Key Features
- Intuitive and simple to use.
- Full filesystem scan.
- Single folder scan.
- Remote scan via ssh, ftp, smb, http, and https.
- Graphical tree maps:
- Ring charts – a graphical representation of the disk usage by a concrete folder.
- Treemaps.
- Detailed list of disk usage according to directories.
- Monitoring of home directory.
Website: www.marzocca.net/linux/baobab
Support: Documentation
Developer: Fabio Marzocca
License: GNU General Public License v2.0
Disk Usage Analyser is written in Vala. Learn Vala with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
Related Software
| Disk Usage Utilities | |
|---|---|
| QDirStat | Excellent Qt-based directory statistics |
| Filelight | Creates an interactive map to visualise disk usage |
| Baobab | Also known as Disk Usage Analyse |
| agedu | Utility for tracking down wasted disk space |
| SquirrelDisk | Bills itself as "the easiest app you will ever use to detect huge files" |
| K4DirStat | KDE Directory Statistics sums up disk usage for directory trees |
| Krusader | File manager with built-in disk usage functionality |
| SpaceMan | Treemap disk usage analyzer |
| xdiskusage | Light and frugal utility |
| MX Cleanup | GUI for system cleanup and maintenance |
| crossdirstat | File and directory statistics written using Electron |
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