Re: [xubuntu-users] showing disk space used

2016-05-13 Thread John R. Sowden
I have tried baobab. I don't understand the 'ring' graph and the tree graph option is totally beyond me. Part of the problem is in both graphs, the colors or shapes are not identified, leaving me to go between a directory listing and the chart. Too much use of the wrong cpu. ncdu is

Re: [xubuntu-users] showing disk space used

2016-05-13 Thread Wiebe van der Worp
On 13-05-16 20:51, John R. Sowden wrote: There is a program in DOS called hog. It shows me the amount of disk space consumed by each of the current directory's subdirectories in a pie chart with different colors. I an instantly see where I am consuming disk space. Is there something like that

Re: [xubuntu-users] showing disk space used

2016-05-13 Thread Ince, Wilbur
There is a graphical tool called Baobab. You can find it in the menu under Disk Usage Analyzer. Exactly as you describe. Wilbur On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 2:07 PM, Petter Adsen wrote: > On Fri, 13 May 2016 11:55:23 -0700 > "John R. Sowden" wrote: >

Re: [xubuntu-users] showing disk space used

2016-05-13 Thread Peter Flynn
On 05/13/2016 07:51 PM, John R. Sowden wrote: > There is a program in DOS called hog. It shows me the amount of disk > space consumed by each of the current directory's subdirectories in a > pie chart with different colors. I an instantly see where I am > consuming disk space. Is there

Re: [xubuntu-users] showing disk space used

2016-05-13 Thread Petter Adsen
On Fri, 13 May 2016 11:55:23 -0700 "John R. Sowden" wrote: > correction of version. this is not a message from the future :) > > On 05/13/2016 11:51 AM, John R. Sowden wrote: > > There is a program in DOS called hog. It shows me the amount of > > disk space

Re: [xubuntu-users] showing disk space used

2016-05-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
>From command line use du and df : $ du -sh /home/rocketmouse/ 6.6G/home/rocketmouse/ $ du -h /home/rocketmouse/ 4.0K/home/rocketmouse/.gnome2/nemo-scripts 20K /home/rocketmouse/.gnome2/accels 32K /home/rocketmouse/.gnome2 16K /home/rocketmouse/.jsampler [snip] $ df

[xubuntu-users] showing disk space used

2016-05-13 Thread John R. Sowden
There is a program in DOS called hog. It shows me the amount of disk space consumed by each of the current directory's subdirectories in a pie chart with different colors. I an instantly see where I am consuming disk space. Is there something like that for Linux? I use Ubuntu 140.04. If