Flame graphs for file systems

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Mattias Geniar, February 06, 2017

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Very nice visualisation!

My laptop was recently running low on available disk space, and it was a mystery as to why. I have different tools to explore the file system, including running the “find / -ls” command from a terminal, but it was time consuming to dig through these. I wanted a big picture view of space by directories, subdirectories, and so on.

I’ve created a simple open source tool to do this, using flame graphs as the final visualization.

Source: Where has my disk space gone? Flame graphs for file systems