I know you asked for console tools, but I've found filelight (http://www.methylblue.com/filelight/) to be incredibly useful. It displays the file usage on your system based on concentric rings. Each ring from the center is one directory in from your original searh point (so a search from / would show a segment for /home, /usr, etc., and each of those would have segments for their subfolders), and the size of each segment is determined by the total size of all the contents. At a glance (after it's taken the time to scan your drive initially), you can see where your biggest space eaters are located.

The website claims that the "net-result is something similar to KDirStat, however the data is more dense, and the representation more informative."

--Thomas

Aaron Bockover writes:

Nautilus gave me a shocking message a few moments ago: not enough disk
space.

A quick df -h showed that my primary volume was indeed 100% used. Sad
really. I am a data hoarder. It's compulsive.

My question is this: is there a shell tool or script in existence that
can be run on a given base directory and calculate the total size of the
*files* in a directory (not recursively), and report those larger than
some limit? Also something to report single large files larger than some
limit?

If a tool like this exists, it might help me reduce some of my clutter.
I know I should probably get rid of those massive ISOs from five years
ago, but what if I need RH 6 next week?! I'm trying to avoid that route.

If something like this doesn't exist, I think I may have to write one.
I'd love to hear thoughts on how others manage their heaps of data.
Fortunately most of mine is somewhat organized, but organization comes
in phases... dig through data -- organize data -- collect data --
realize data is unorganized -- repeat.

Regards,
Aaron Bockover


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