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List:       kde-announce
Subject:    ANNOUNCE: KDirStat
From:       Stefan Hundhammer <sh () suse ! de>
Date:       2000-01-26 9:52:34
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ANNOUNCE: New KDE 1.x application:

KDirStat - graphical directory statistics for KDE 1.x.
Shows where all your disk space has gone and tries to help you clean it up.

Visit the KDirStat home page for details, screen shots, the sources
and an RPM for SuSE 6.3:

	http://www.suse.de/~sh/kdirstat


***** What is it? *****
(Excerpt from the Manual)

KDirStat (for KDE Directory Statistics) is a small utility program
that sums up disk usage for direcory trees - very much like the Unix
'du' command.

But unlike 'du', it tries to do that in a structured, comprehensive
manner. It tries to provide the information you are looking for -
exactly where all your disk space has gone when that dreaded 'no space
left on device' message shows up again. Or when your system
administrator asks you to clean up your home directory. Or when you
are that system administrator trying to figure out which one of your
users filled up that supposedly huge disk up to capacity.

What you are really interested in is usually which subdirectory
(including all subdirectories) of a given directory tree uses up how
many percent (or Mega/ Gigabyte) of that tree. Once you know that, you
want to descend those subdirectories that use up most space and find
out which of those sub- subdirectories use up most space etc. - until
you find stuff you can get rid of (archive to tape, compress, delete)
or you have to admit you'll have to order another hard disk.

Ordering hard disks is not something KDirStat can help you with. But
cleaning up is. KDirStat provides some built-in cleanup facilities as
well as the ability to include your own cleanup commands or scripts.


-- 
Stefan Hundhammer <sh@suse.de>
SuSE Labs
Nuernberg, Germany

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