xdiskusage

xdiskusage

xdiskusage is a user-friendly program to show you what is using up all your disk space. It is based on the design of xdu written by Phillip C. Dykstra <dykstra at ieee dot org>. Changes have been made so it runs "du" for you, and can display the free space left on the disk, and produce a PostScript version of the display.

To compile xdiskusage you need the fltk library. A static-linked Linux executable is also provided here.

Man page
Download executable (sorry 64 bit only): xdiskusage.gz (275K)
Git repository: git clone git://git.code.sf.net/p/xdiskusage/git xdiskusage
Download source: xdiskusage-1.60.tgz (54K)
Visit the xdiskusage SourceForge page to browse source and bug reports.
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Changes in the newest version:

Fixed systems that don't have getdelim (ie non-Linux)

Older changes:

'q' menu item to exit (Esc key also works)
Copy menu item sets X clipboard as well as X selection
Linux-only fix for files with newlines in their name (now fixed for non-Linux)
Browser selects directories
Improved disk browser that does not truncate disk names
Fixed the "-" switch that makes it pipe du information from stdin
Build uses fltk-config so it can be compiled on OSX
Added "-o file.ps" to directly print a postscript image without using the gui at all. $DISPLAY does not have to be set for this.

When you run xdiskusage you get this main window:

Clicking on one of the disks gives you (after a bit of a delay) the disk viewing window:

The arrow keys may be used to move the selected directory (shown with a red box) around. There is a pop-up menu (use the right mouse button) with other options for changing the display, you can hide nodes, make that node the "root", change the sort order, etc. You can copy the current path to the clipboard or print the current display (click here for some sample PostScript output).

From: Alexander Blüm To: spitzak thank you for writing this nobel tiny piece of software! I was looking at "xdu" or "LOsT" or even "KdirSTAT" they all need the QT-Libs... its unnecessary. I have only little space left, and your utility was JUST what I needed. with your util I found out that the /usr had only 28MEGS left because of apache with its 530MB of errorlogs (I program PERL/CGI's - lots of error output while developping ;) ) and this brought the "fltk" and "flwm" to my attention. well, what can I say? thank you! that's it! have a real good day, mister! ;)

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