![]() You need a CGI-enabled server in order to run Philesight check the installation instructions and requirements on the program Web site. Philesight is a clone of Filelight written in Ruby and designed to work through the Web. You can also specify that some directories (such as /sys or /proc) shouldn’t be scanned. Right-click on a sector for a context menu that lets you delete a directory or file.įilelight takes few configuration parameters, but you can select the colors that will be used, whether small files should or not be shown, and some similar appearance details. Clicking on a sector works recursively the selected directory becomes the circle, and you can see more detail. Hovering the mouse over an arc sector produces a popup that shows the full path of the corresponding directory, its size (both in megabytes and as a percent of the total space), and the number of files in it. ![]() Subdirectories appear at an outer level, in concentric rings, but if a directory has too many files, a black triangle will appear instead. Colors help differentiate the directories. Filelight also works as a Konqueror plugin once you have installed it, Konqueror will enable a new view mode: check View > View Mode -> Radialmap View.įilelight represents your disk as a circle, and each directory has an arc proportional to the space it’s using. The latest version hails from September 2006, though a KDE 4 version is (vaguely) promised the author is “getting round to it.” Filelight is included with most distributions, so installation is easy via a package manager. If you’re already feeling a pinch, consider using a disk space analyzer tool to see what’s eating your space.įilelight is designed for KDE, but will work in other desktop environments. ![]() If Parkinson’s Law for computers holds true, then no matter how much disk space you have, it will get used up.
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