Disk Usage Analyzer

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Disk Usage Analyzer
Original author Fabio Marzocca
Developer Paolo Borelli
Stable release
48.0 [1]   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg / 15 March 2025;10 months ago (15 March 2025)
Repository
Operating system UNIX-like
Type Disk utility
License GNU General Public License
Website apps.gnome.org/Baobab/
The alternative treemap chart view represents files as rings GNOME Disk Usage Analyzer Tree View.png
The alternative treemap chart view represents files as rings

Disk Usage Analyzer is a graphical disk usage analyzer for GNOME. It is part of GNOME Core Applications. It was originally named Baobab after the Adansonia tree. [2] The software gives the user a menu-driven, graphical representation of what is on a disk drive. [3] The interface allows for selection of specific parts of filesystem being scanned so a single folder, the entire filesystem, and even remote folders and filesystems can be scanned. [4] The graphical representation can be switched between a ring chart and a treemap chart so the presentation can be tailored to the specific content being scanned. [5]

Contents

In 2012, [6] [7] Disk Usage Analyzer was rewritten in Vala. [8]

Features

Baobab Graphical Disk Usage Map Baobab-treemap-ru.png
Baobab Graphical Disk Usage Map

The program can scan an entire file system or a specific directory, either local or located on a remote computer. Each directory can be opened in the Nautilus file manager or moved to the Trash. It also allows users to monitor changes in the file system in real time. Another feature is the disk usage map, which provides a graphical representation of the subdirectory tree of a selected directory and the amount of disk space used by each component. Earlier versions of the program included a file system search function; this feature was later removed. [9]

Future

At the GNOME Users And Developers European Conference (GUADEC) in 2013, a plan to merge the Disk Usage Analyzer with gnome-system-monitor to a new program called Usage was presented. [10] [11]

References

  1. ↑ "Release 48.0" . Retrieved 1 August 2025.
  2. ↑ Bunn, Tristan (26 April 2021). Learn Python Visually: Creative Coding with Processing.py. No Starch Press. ISBN   978-1-7185-0096-9.
  3. ↑ "Disk Usage Analyzer for GNOME". Ghacks. 4 January 2011. Retrieved 25 December 2011.
  4. ↑ "Baobab Usage". Marzocca. Retrieved 25 December 2011.
  5. ↑ Farshad (25 August 2011). "Ubuntu's Baobab (Disk Usage Analyzer) Shows Graphical Tree Map Of Directories". Addictivetips. Retrieved 25 December 2011.
  6. ↑ Karlitskaya, Allison; Borelli, Paolo (4 January 2012). "Begin rewrite in Vala (586355bd)". GitLab. Retrieved 14 January 2026.
  7. ↑ "Revision History". GNOME Wiki. Archived from the original on 13 September 2024. Retrieved 14 January 2026.
  8. ↑ "Apps/Baobab/ValaRewrite". GNOME Wiki. Archived from the original on 27 March 2014. Retrieved 1 August 2025.
  9. ↑ "GNOME 2.18 shows incremental improvement". Linux. Archived from the original on 15 September 2008. Retrieved 14 January 2026.
  10. ↑ "Usage". GNOME Wiki. Retrieved 14 January 2026.
  11. ↑ "Merging System Monitor with Usage". GNOME Wiki. Retrieved 14 January 2026.

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