Archive for January, 2008

File system visualization

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008

My 120GB notebook hard drive is almost filled up - but why? This tedious task can easily be solved with WinDirStat, a clone of the Linux application KDirStat.  The file system is visualized with colored blocks in different sizes. The colors represent the file type and the block size the memory a file uses. At a glance large files and huge directories can be identified.

WinDirStat in action