ccleaner for linux. Useful?

[Snowhog]

Visual 'eye candy' with little actual value.

[GreyGeek]

You took the words right out of my mind!

[SecretCode]

My low-tech preference is xdiskusage. Runs from command line but creates a X-windows graphic. Mentioned, with a screenshot, in this thread: FAQ: Free Disk Space - Regenerated

I don't see a practical use for either one, since I can sort on the size column in Dolphin and I don't need a graph to compare file sizes.

The disadvantage - and for me it's very often a real pain - is that if you don't know in which folder and at what depth possible large files are, looking in Dolphin at one folder at a time is useless.

[GreyGeek]

http://unix.stackexchange.com/questi...ze-recursively

[vsreeser]

http://unix.stackexchange.com/questi...ze-recursively

Useful info. Might make some alias's of these

[SecretCode]

xdiskusage gives you the same information as du, and du is the go-to command for simple cases. I started using xdiskusage after being frustrated one too many times with the output of du being thousands of lines, obscuring the one or two bits of information I was actually looking for.

[tomcloyd]

Does a program exist for linux similiar to windirstat? Nice graphical depiction of used drive space and what files are taking the most room

I have used, and loved, K4DirStat for years. I believe that it's a port of WinDirStat - or maybe it's the other way around. It's very usable and useful, and fast enough to not be a pain at all. Try it, you'll like it! (Should be in the packages....)