{"id":60,"date":"2010-01-23T15:52:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-23T20:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paleotechnologist.net\/?p=60"},"modified":"2012-07-20T12:36:56","modified_gmt":"2012-07-20T16:36:56","slug":"directory-size-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paleotechnologist.net\/?p=60","title":{"rendered":"Directory Size Management"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m in the process of organizing and backing up the rather large directory structure on my desktop box, in preparation to try out Windows 7 and Ubuntu Linux.<\/p>\n<p>Until I finally buy a BD-R drive (which will probably happen sometime this year), this means backing up to DVD-R discs. My mail spool is no problem at 2.3GB or thereabouts, but the \\docs directory is another story entirely. There is content in there &#8212; probably large, unused content &#8212; from at least as far back as the first Clinton administration. I don&#8217;t mind keeping old data around if it&#8217;s reasonably sized, but how to tell where the disk-hogging directories are?<\/p>\n<p>Googling &#8220;directory tree size,&#8221; I came across <a href=\"http:\/\/windirstat.info\/\">WinDirStat<\/a>. It&#8217;s a freeware application to scan a given directory structure and show how much is taken up by which subdirectories.<\/p>\n<p>It also takes this data and maps it into pretty fractal pictures.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/windirstat.info\/images\/windirstat.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll post my thoughts on Ubuntu and Windows 7 when I get to them. I may even try out the 64-bit version of XP, depending on how much I like or dislike Win7. (With 64-bit support and newer versions of DirectX, I *want* to like it &#8212; but I have concerns about the way the GUI has been evolving since Office 2007 and Vista.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WinDirStat provides an intuitive, visual way to identify large files and directories. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paleotechnologist.net\/?p=60\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sysadmin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paleotechnologist.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paleotechnologist.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paleotechnologist.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paleotechnologist.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paleotechnologist.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.paleotechnologist.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138,"href":"https:\/\/www.paleotechnologist.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions\/138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paleotechnologist.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paleotechnologist.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paleotechnologist.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}