Tree Maps of Disk Space

GrandPerspective and Disk Inventory X are two free Mac OS X apps that give graphical views of where your disk space is being used. Both of these are based on work developed at the University of Maryland called GrandPerspective sees my home folder:

Disk Inventory X is more ambitious. Like GrandPerspective, it displays rectangles based on the sizes of files. But it also shows much more information: (Parallels Workstation documents (the same files are the large blue boxes in the GrandPerspective view). Notice to the right that documents of that type consume a total of 14.2GB of my hard drive. I can also see that I have 20.5MB of PDF files and so on. That's helpful information. I can't really say that one of these is better than the other: it depends on what I'm looking for. The simplicity of GrandPerspective is attractive for a quick overview, but Disk Inventory X includes information GrandPerspective doesn't have. I'll keep them both. *Originally published at Del.icio.us") | Yahoo! My Web A.P. Lawrence provides SCO Unix and Linux consulting services http://www.pcunix.com