Diskitude: Disk usage visualization tool in 10 KB

Speaking of the size and Win32: I remember fondly in Delphi years there was a full-fledged framework which replaced the included libraries: KOL and MCK [1] (latter one replaced VCL), written from scratch and relying mostly on Win32 and a bit of asm.<p>It produced ridiculously tiny and responsive programs, both CLI and GUI, while still integrating into Delphi (and later Lazarus) drag-n-drop IDE workflow.<p>Needless to say, the specifics of the project attracted the obsessive type. Currently, the main developer is working on his own language Al-IV [2][3]. One of the goals, it seems, is total platform mobility, the language supposedly compiles (transpiles?) to &quot;C#, Delphi (32 bit old style, with VCL), Free Pascal&#x2F;Lazarus and Java&#x2F;Android&quot;. I honestly don&#x27;t know what it is, a work of a genius or fringe art, but that&#x27;s <i>a lot</i> of work and I think it deserves a bit of attention.<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.freepascal.org&#x2F;KOL" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.freepascal.org&#x2F;KOL</a><p>2. <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;f0460945.xsph.ru&#x2F;AL4&#x2F;index.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;f0460945.xsph.ru&#x2F;AL4&#x2F;index.html</a><p>3. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sourceforge.net&#x2F;projects&#x2F;al-iv&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sourceforge.net&#x2F;projects&#x2F;al-iv&#x2F;</a>

I use WizTree for this which is faster but maybe less accurate? The end report is, in my opinion, more intuitive and easier&#x2F;faster to navigate.

For people on the commandline, `ncdu`, I highly recommend it.

Back in the day tinyapps.org was the go to site for all tiny programs. I think today it would be much harder to round up such huge collection of tiny programs that are free and actually useful.

Thanks for the link. I&#x27;m a sucker for GNOME&#x27;s disk usage visualizer, so it&#x27;s nice to have something similar on Windows.

I remember when there was an MSDOS tree command that was 512 bytes, same as a disk block at the time. I think it was written in assembly, and was from pc magazine or similar, can&#x27;t remember the author. not saying this as &quot;10k is a lot&quot;, just a reminder of how ppl acheive amazing things with constraints.

While I was trying out Ubuntu, there was a view of disk usage that used this kind of circular layout. And it confused me. Does the position on the circle indicate hierarchy? I don&#x27;t know just looking at it why things are where they are on the circle. Am I missing something that others find intuitive?

Why are disk usage tools always so slow? Can&#x27;t the filesystem store diskusage hierarchically, so these tools can open instantly?

What is the best MacOSX nearest alternative?

I’ve always used (and love) winDirStat.

For Windows I use space sniffer because the visualisations and UX are pretty much perfect. <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.uderzo.it&#x2F;main_products&#x2F;space_sniffer&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.uderzo.it&#x2F;main_products&#x2F;space_sniffer&#x2F;</a>

If you didn&#x27;t notice, this was created by the cofounder of Figma.

I user sequoiaview.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.win.tue.nl&#x2F;sequoiaview&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.win.tue.nl&#x2F;sequoiaview&#x2F;</a>

sudo find . -type d -print0 | xargs -0 du -m | sort -un<p>Disk usage visualization tool in 56 characters. :-)

I was gonna say you cant beat gt5 and xdiskusage, but then I saw this is for windows

Been using this almost 10 years now to find large folders to delete, simple and fast.

There&#x27;s a curses disk visualizer in python:<p>$ pip install --user ohmu<p>$ ohmu