Qdu

qdu is a graphical disk usage tool based on Qt. It acts as the du unix command, but the result is displayed as a more readable hierarchical histogram. One immediately sees which directories consume the most disk space, and each directory can recursively be opened to see its content. You can then delete or move files to save disk space.

Features and manual

Usage : qdu [directory] (default is current direcotry)
Simple graphical interface.
File and directory selection, with total selection size displayed.
Press delete to delete selection (files are actually moved to /tmp/qduGarbage).
Press Shift+delete to really delete.
Selection can be moved with a middle button drag and drop.
Infinite undo and redo with CTRL+Z and CTRL+Y.
Press F1 to open a help window.
Context menu with right button.
Files and directories can be renamed.
File filters (only shows images, movies, sounds, pdf...).
Sorting by name or size.
Filtered display (only large and/or non hidden and/or specific files).

Installation

There are several possible installation procedures :

Directly download qdu, the Linux executable.
Install the RPM : rpm -Uvh qdu-2.2-2.i586.rpm.
Rebuild from the sources using rpmbuild --rebuild qdu-2.2-2.src.rpm.
Compile from the sources (see below).

Feel free to send me an e-mail if you encounter difficulties in the installation process, or if you were able to compile qdu on a new architecture (if you have a windoze executable version, please send it).

Compilation

Simply type:

tar -xzf qdu-2.2.tar.gz
cd qdu-2.2
qmake
make

Edit qdu.pro to tune the installation process. Windows users can download qdu-2.2.zip.

If Qt is not installed on your system, download the free X11 GPL version.

In order to compile with Qt, you will probably need to set some environment variables :

[ba]sh > export QTDIR=/usr/lib/qt3 (or /usr/lib/qt-3.3 or /usr/share/qt ...)
[t]csh > setenv QTDIR /usr/lib/qt3 (or ...)
set PATH=${PATH}:${QTDIR}/bin/
set LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}:${QTDIR}/lib

Try to compile a simple Qt example and check the Qt FAQ page in case of problem.
If qdu displays unreadable fonts, simply run qtconfig and change the default font.

Change Log

Feb 26th, 2004 : Version 2.2-2 : Minor cleaning. Ready for Debian packaging.
Feb 25th, 2004 : Version 2.2-1 : Project renamed qdu (xdu already exists).
Sept 30th, 2003 : Version 2.1-2 : bug fix for directories larger than 2Gb (bug finder mark).
Sept 24th, 2003 : Version 2.1-1 : bug fixes. Parent directory can now be scanned. Faster.

Limitation

Due to a Qt internal 32 bit limitation, sizes of files larger than 4Gb are not properly reported (and hence the sums for directories containing these files).