I'm a collector of crap I find on the Net, & I admit it. If I see it & it looks cool, it's going on my hard drive. Unfortunately, that also means that I sometimes find myself with very little disk space left, and I need to free up some, stat. I have external hard drives to store this stuff, but which stuff do I move? What's taking up all the space? Baobab to the rescue!

Installation is easy. Debian people just apt-get install baobab, Fedora folks use yum install baobab, and everyone else can either find a binary or download the source.

It's a GNOME app that analyzes your hard drive, or a selected folder & its subfolders, or even a remote drive (which is way cool), & then gives you a list back of every folder & file, as well as the number of objects and the size. Sort by name or size to help you ferret out the hogs. Or you can choose to see a graphical Mondrian-inspired map that shows you visually how big everything is. All in all, this is a very cool app, one that even KDE users should check out & use.