Useful tool

[andrewducker]

If you frequently need a disk usage program, you can find a very quick one here.

Comments

[andrewducker]

What's the interface for du?

I've used lots of similar programs before (Treesize is my favourite, but it's a pay program), but this was free and quick.

I can easily get the size of a folder (and it's subfolders), but there's no built in method of seeing a tree in Windows.

And I don't use Unix if I can possibly help it. Well, not as a client anyway - my mail/web sits on a Unix server somewhere statesside.

[diffrentcolours]

Command line! The One True Interface!

alex@halcyon:~$ du -h -s *
24K     Desktop
5.0M    PSB.mp3
12K     badgerkin.jpg
12K     badgerkin2.jpg
4.0K    cruk-revocation-cert.txt
308K    enigmail
3.8G    music
72K     newsite-network
4.0K    occhealth.txt
4.0K    parsexls.pl
44K     perf-finger.jpg
0       postponed
760K    valfiles.tar.gz.gpg
48K     website
4.0K    wordfind.pl

Although Konqueror and other GUI file browsers do have pretty neat interfaces.

I don't use Windows if I can possibly help it. If only GTA3 were ported to a sensible OS...

[andrewducker]

I like text interfaces in some ways - they're nice and simple and you can parse them with other programs.

On the other hand, with my program I can look at the list, open up a large one to investigate it, close it back down to make it easier to see the whole lot, etc.

With some of the better ones I've seen I could also select files and delete them from within the program, which was very handy.

Generally speaking I prefer GUIs for most operations, as I can work with them a lot faster. Of course, I don't do highly complex admin tasks (although I believe the object scriptign in Windows is quite good for this).

If you want a games machine, I recommend you pick up a PS2 cheap...

[diffrentcolours]

There is normally a GUI equivalent to most command line operations in Linux, but I don't know what they are because I find it easier and faster to work on the command line.

And why would I want a PS/2 when a PC offers more of the games I like, can do non-games stuff too, and has better hardware?