Filelight allows you to understand exactly where your diskspace is being used by graphically representating your filesystem as a set of concentric segmented-rings.
It is like a pie-chart, but the segments nest, allowing you to see both which directories take up all your space, and which directories and files inside those directories are the real culprits.
You can use it to locate hotspots of disk usage and then manipulate those areas using a file manager.
Key Features
- Specify a directory to scan on startup at the command line.
- Scan across fileysystem boundaries including remote filesytems and removable media.
- Integated with Konqueror under View | View Mode | RadialMap View.
- Exclude directories.
Website: apps.kde.org/filelight
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Developer: Martin Sandsmark, Max Howell
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
Filelight 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 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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