JDiskReport : du for mortals   May 22nd, 2006

If you are an old UNIX hacker like mean you’ll have come across the du command. Its short for Disk Usage. Well du is fine for C programmers but the rest of us probably would prefer a gentler, friendlier tool. Enter stage left JDiskReport a wonderful little Java utility that scans your disk at any point you choose in the file tree and generates nice graphical report of disk usage in either a bar pie chart,
PieChart

or as a bar chart,

FileDistribution

You can also get a date modified distribution,

Modified

and a file size distribution,

FileDistribution

Final sweet spot, it runs on just about anything.