VIZEX
Graphing disk usage
Shashank Sharma is a fount of knowledge and knows how to present the information. Which is why he appreciates tools that display data clearly…
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Shashank Sharma is a trial lawyer in New Delhi and an avid Arch user. He’s always on the look-out for pocketfriendly geeky memorabilia.
W ith ever-expanding disk capacities and fast dropping prices, you would think that checking disk space usage was an activity of a bygone era. While this might be true for casual home users who run a tight ship, if you’re running an install-and-forget rolling-release distribution such as Arch, Gentoo or the like, you must keep an eye on disk space usage lest you find yourself out of storage room.
Linux distributions boast a number of graphical and text utilities that help you keep an eye on disk space. For regular users of the command line, df and du are among the most popular tools, but they produce a vast amount of mostly incomprehensible data. If you want your disk space usage presented in a stylist bar chart then Vizex is just the right tool for you.
It’s far easier to assimilate vast amounts of information when presented in graph form. But knowing the right graph to use is just as important. Thankfully, Vizex uses bar graphs to full effect to present limited, but pertinent disk usage information. Unlike the df and du commands that need the -h command switch to be human readable, the data presented by Vizex is easier to make sense of.