One task that every one should do it is deleting useless files. If you do not, you will run out of disk space inevitably. Then, you will wonder where my disk space has gone?
Filelight is the answer to you. Filelight creates an interactive map of concentric, segmented rings that help visualize disk usage on your computer. Like a pie-chart, but the segments nest, allowing you to easily see which files are taking up all your space.
Here what you see when you open Filelight first time.![]()
And here when you dig down in your filesystem.![]()
Here you can get rid of space wasters by opening it in konqueror or delete it directly.![]()
For gnome guys, Baobab will give you seem functionality.
You can install Filelight on openSUSE 11.2 by clicking on this link 1-Click Install . For other distributions, you will find it in your package manager.

thanks ill try it now
mohaned_nj (not verified) on Fri, 01/08/2010 - 00:10thanks
ill try it now
kdirstat?
GoatTuber (not verified) on Tue, 01/05/2010 - 00:55I've been using kdirstat for years (even on my Gnome desktops, it's much better than Baobab). If you've never used it, go take it for a spin.
Delete is cheapest.
u64 (not verified) on Mon, 01/04/2010 - 19:20Just be sure to sort important and non-important
data in seperate directories, that way it's easy
to delete later.
'fdupes' finds duplicate files.
Wine 'pngout.exe' re-compress png harder.
'jpegtran.exe' can losslessly re-compress jpegs harder.
'mp3packer.exe' and so on.
No ogg2ogg though :(
I may do a script that convert my 256kbps mp3 to 140kbps ogg...
Crop bad parts of movies, AviDemux?
Mp3DirectCut.exe can losslessly crop mp3, get rid of annoying parts of songs :D
Again, no ogg crop though :(
Krusader (THE twin-panel
forestmountain (not verified) on Mon, 01/04/2010 - 17:10Krusader (THE twin-panel filemanager) has builtin Disk Usage Panel (maybe its Filelight underneath cos it looks identical)
Try GDMap
Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 01/04/2010 - 10:35Try GDMap, it represents the files in a pretty cool fashion.
your on my list
Gaith (not verified) on Mon, 01/04/2010 - 08:42bros i like what u are doing, i ll be digging your nice post every now and then keep it up :)
You really don't need to delete anything . . .
AC (not verified) on Mon, 01/04/2010 - 02:21You really don't need to delete anything . . . just upgrade to ever larger hard drives :)
I have a rule : Delete any
Fahad on Mon, 01/04/2010 - 16:03I have a rule : Delete any file that you don't use it within two weeks.
I Agree
Stomfi (not verified) on Mon, 01/04/2010 - 13:20I agree totally. Drive space is so cheap.
I have been partitioning /home and /usr/local on a separate drives ever since Slackware 1993. Now in 2010, I have partitions for /opt, /var/www and linked partitions in $HOME for documents, images, music, downloads, .thunderbird and .mozilla. In /usr/local/src I keep sources for any extras I install and a regular aptoncd backup including libraries for the Ubuntu distro.
I have partitions on my root drive for several distros, although sometimes I have to setup another /home partition for compatibility.
Of course, I mirror all this on another machine.
I do a spring clean, but usually archive instead of deleting. Sometimes these go onto older drives I can search in a USB caddy.
I like this program. It
Fahad on Sun, 01/03/2010 - 21:56I like this program. It helped me when my disk was full and I wanted to know where my hard disk space has gone.