Friday, April 13, 2007
File System Visualization
Link to linux.com on the subject.
Also check out this.
Getting xcruise going on Kubuntu was pretty easy, just install dev packages for X11 and XAW. The code itself is ok, and seems to run well. The limitation for me was it was hard to tell the size of directories they don't always face the right way. The navigation was also a little diffcult in that tyou get disorientated easily. This was a point the author also made.
As far as file system visualization goes I also looked at.
Filelight , on kubuntu 6.10 it is installable with apt-get or adept. I quite like it make it really easy to find out where the big files are and it scans the file system quite quickly. Defintely a thumbs up.
GDMap, works on kubuntu installable out of the box on 6.10. Its a lot like SpaceMonger, the display is good. You can't navigate with it. I'd still prefer Filelight.
I have noticed a limitiation in both Filelight and GDMap. They both cannot handle very large directories, I have one that is 13Gb and neither application attempts to display it. I'd guess and say the counter used to count size of files and directories isn't large enough.
Also check out this.
Getting xcruise going on Kubuntu was pretty easy, just install dev packages for X11 and XAW. The code itself is ok, and seems to run well. The limitation for me was it was hard to tell the size of directories they don't always face the right way. The navigation was also a little diffcult in that tyou get disorientated easily. This was a point the author also made.
As far as file system visualization goes I also looked at.
Filelight , on kubuntu 6.10 it is installable with apt-get or adept. I quite like it make it really easy to find out where the big files are and it scans the file system quite quickly. Defintely a thumbs up.
GDMap, works on kubuntu installable out of the box on 6.10. Its a lot like SpaceMonger, the display is good. You can't navigate with it. I'd still prefer Filelight.
I have noticed a limitiation in both Filelight and GDMap. They both cannot handle very large directories, I have one that is 13Gb and neither application attempts to display it. I'd guess and say the counter used to count size of files and directories isn't large enough.
// posted by P3t3 @ 3:59 pm 
