agedu is a utility for identifying disk space occupied by files that have not been accessed for extended periods. It combines information about file sizes with access timestamps to help distinguish frequently used data from material that may no longer be needed.
Conventional disk usage utilities identify which directories consume the most space. agedu adds another dimension by considering when files were last accessed.
The application scans a directory tree and creates an index containing information about its contents. This index is used to generate reports showing the amount of storage occupied by files of different ages.
Its graphical reports can be viewed in a web browser. Each directory is represented by a coloured bar, with colours indicating how recently its files have been accessed. Users can navigate between directories to investigate areas containing substantial amounts of older data.
This makes agedu especially useful for examining archives, old project directories, backup collections and other data that may have accumulated over time. Access timestamps are only an indication of usage, however, and their reliability depends on filesystem configuration and how applications access files.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Correlates disk usage with file access timestamps.
- Scans directory trees and creates an index for subsequent analysis.
- Generates graphical HTML reports using colour-coded age information.
- Built-in web server provides interactive access to disk usage reports.
- Navigate between directories through hyperlinks in the graphical reports.
- Produces text-based disk usage reports.
- Filter results according to the age of files.
- Distinguish recently accessed data from older collections of files.
- Reuse an existing scan index without repeating the entire directory traversal.
- Supports importing scan information generated on another system.
Website: www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/agedu
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Developer: Simon Tatham
License: MIT License
agedu is written in C. Learn C 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 Analyser |
| 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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