Computer Hard drive

sahun

Is there anyway of seeing how the computer Cdrive space is being used throughout my computer?
As I have about 100GB of space being used, but I don't know what for!
Going onto add/remove programs doesn't help as the space is used by 'installed' programs.

fermi

I quite like windirstat.

http://windirstat.info/

It shows you both in the folder tree and graphically, exactly where and what is using you hard disk space.

sahun

cheers, ill take a look

Ploddy

can't think of a quick way off the top of my head but try this. For Windows XP.

Start, Run,
Type "Command"

on the DOS prompt type cd\
should now read c:\

now type
dir /a/s/os > files.txt

this will create a file called "files.txt" in the root of you hdd.
The files will be listed in directory order, with the files in each directory listed in size order. (smallest first)

HTH.

Ploddy

the last post popped up whilst I was typing,

so as above then really.

fwor

The Disk Usage Analysis tool that is available as part of many of the Debian-based distros is superb - concentric rings show each of the main directories, with rings further out showing subfolders, with files in the outermost rings. The bigger the file, the bigger the segment, and mousing over each ones gives location and size. Excellent!

sahun

thanx ploddy, im running vista though

fermi

fwor wrote: »

The Disk Usage Analysis tool that is available as part of many of the Debian-based distros is superb - concentric rings show each of the main directories, with rings further out showing subfolders, with files in the outermost rings. The bigger the file, the bigger the segment, and mousing over each ones gives location and size. Excellent!

Got a name for that? I'm not on a debian based one, but it sounds a bit nicer than using 'fsview' under this distro (Mandriva).

sahun

just used the windirstat, and it has accounted for 170gb of the 250gb hard-drive, but 'my computer' says i have 23gb free, not the the 60oddGB i should have.

fwor

fermi - I didn't realise that it's actually called Baobab and it's by Fabio Marzocca, and as you'd expected it's under GNU public licence.

There's also GdMap, which looks rather like the windirstat pointed to above, but I find that harder to read than Baobab.

fermi

sahun wrote: »

just used the windirstat, and it has accounted for 170gb of the 250gb hard-drive, but 'my computer' says i have 23gb free, not the the 60oddGB i should have.

Not sure, but I know XP was/is bad enough at hiding huge quantities of data for it's backup/restore functions. I can only presume that Vista hogs and hides even more space for this.