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Best free tool to find largest files and folders on a drive
Best program to visualize file system usage on Windows?

does anyone know a free software that will graph the directories on my hard drive and sort them in order of largest size?

or provide me a solution for me to quickly determine what drives/ files are consuming my hard drive space?

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    What OS? You need to provide more information
    – MadHatter
    Jan 5, 2011 at 15:41
  • This question would be better suited for SU Jan 5, 2011 at 15:52
  • Oh, I found another one: superuser.com/questions/8248/…
    – Bobby
    Jan 5, 2011 at 16:20
  • @Bobby So how do you know the user is on Windows?
    – Daniel Beck
    Jan 5, 2011 at 16:46
  • @Daniel Beck: Good point...was a wild guess, a Linux/MacOSX/anyOtherOsUser would have, most likely, mentioned it.
    – Bobby
    Jan 9, 2011 at 19:17

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I've had really good luck with windirstat, if you're on Windows of course.

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You can use utilities such as KDirStat (Linux/KDE) to visualize where your free space went.

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WinDirStat is a similar tool for Windows.

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Disk Inventory X is for Mac OS X.

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  • Very succinct answer and I like the screenshots. I've used gt5 on linux in the past but I'm going to give kdirstat a try. Feb 18, 2015 at 16:21
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For windows- have a look at getfoldersize - it doesn't graph but it does sort by usage and allows you to drill down and find high usage sub directories etc.

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If you're using a *nix environment it's quick to just use du -sh /dir to find offensively sized directories. It's somewhat crude, but quick and effective.

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