I’ve been looking for this one for some time now. I know there are several tools out there that do the same but none of them are Freeware! Check out WinDirStat. It’s free and gives you a great overview of which folder contains the MB’s! This can be very useful on fileservers when your disks are magically filling up with all sorts of “garbage”. Especially the “extension lists” is very useful, at one of my previous employers we noticed about 25GB of mp3’s and a whole bunch of iso files on our fileserver which definitely should’t have been there! In other words, pick it up! This one is useful! (the source)
Yes, this tool is in my secret ninja bag for some years and it is a must have for any fileserver administrator. It also helps to locate that long forgotten huge files that may clutter uselessly the hard drive. Just hovering the mouse over the map and reading the realtime updated directory/filenames give you an immediate idea of the complete disk layout.
Perfect!
I myself find WinDirStat’s visualization system to be more annoying than useful.
There are more tools that have similar functionality, probably most of them without an extension list though.
Like:
-DirGraph (http://www.spillett.net/dirgraph/)
-Disktective (http://www.disktective.com/)
-Folder Size (http://www.sulaco.co.za/downloads.htm, doesn’t “see” files over 2 GB as taking up more than 2 GB of space)
-Space Monger (http://www.werkema.com/software/index.php, v1.4 is still freeware)
-i.Disk (http://www.memecode.com/)
And more. Look under Folder/Disk Space Usage at http://tinyapps.org/file.html for a few more, including command line versions for those so inclined.
Sweet! Now I don’t have to keep downloading the TreeSize demo to different servers!