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Is there a graphical tool for Windows or Linux to show and plot detailed folder statistics?
For instance how much % of the space is allocated to images, multimedia, text,...?
Free software is preferred, but commercial solutions are also sought out. Command line tools or scripts are welcome too.
Update (Dec '12): Salamander Commander offers such functionality on Windows through "DiskMap":
This is the best tool for that:
On start up, it reads the whole directory tree once and then presents it in three useful views:
- The directory list, which resembles the tree view of the Windows Explorer but is sorted by file/subtree size,
- The treemap, which shows the whole contents of the directory tree straight away,
- The extension list, which serves as a legend and shows statistics about the file types.
On the right hand side shows how much space is taken up by file types:
