[YLUG] File size visualisation

Stuart Priest sap1 at york.ac.uk
Wed Jun 24 09:41:53 UTC 2009


Zoe Stephenson wrote:
> Hi,
>   At the social we discussed, among many things, file size visualisation.
> Well, "discussed" might be a little strong.  "Mentioned" is perhaps more
> accurate.  I mentioned that I'd used gdmap to find some troublingly large
> files, and we also recalled that Konqueror has a way of presenting a
> similar view.  I'm wondering if there are other similar utilities, and
> which one is the best to use - thoughts?  Experiences?
> 

Dear Zoe

In the good old days when all my UNIX machines were SGIs I used FSN 
(File System Navigator - as seen in Jurassic Park).  I think someone 
created a Linux version called fsv but I never tried it.

Regards
-- 
Stuart Priest
Bioscience Computing Manager, Dept. of Biology (Area 15)
University of York, PO Box 373, YORK, YO10 5YW, UK
Telephone 01904 328744, mobile 07876 577900, FAX 01904 328804



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