[Discuss] disk space analysis tools

[Matthew Gillen]

On 10/07/2011 11:47 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> Since my background is a software engineer not a system administrator, I
> have generally used DU to manage my own disk space, or possibly to look
> at disk space usage on the BLU servers. But, recently I'm seeing
> significant increase in my work's backup server (a WD MyBook). While du
> works fine (using the appropriate options), it does take some time to
> analyze the results. One issue I have is whether the increase in space
> is due to someone moving things around (such as in a client space) that
> will break the hard links, but eventually the storage will go down as
> the older dailies are removed. I only keep a few weeks because out New
> York office backs us up also.
>
> So, what I am looking for is either some decent tools I can use that are
> less time consuming than looking at du output.
>

Ever tried filelight?  It's a pretty cool visualization of disk usage. 
There's a gnome-equivalent, I can't think of the name...

There's also 'agedu'.  From the man page:
agedu - correlate disk usage with last-access times to identify large 
and disused data

Matt