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This is a pretty awesome way to visualise filesizes of various things... never seen it before..

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http://grandperspectiv.sourceforge.net/

...And for the Windows community: http://www.sixty-five.cc/sm/

Is there a Linux equivalent?

du -hs /home/* | sort -k 1,1

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Hmm, that and the Mac and Windows utilities linked don't seem to be doing what's needed to generate this Chrome view, though. The Chrome binary is a single file on disk, and this treeview is digging into it to figure out which components contribute to the final size of the statically linked binary.

I use WinDirStat for Windows http://windirstat.sourceforge.net/

I use KDirStat http://kdirstat.sourceforge.net/

Someone is working on a kde4 port, see comments at http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php/KDirStat?content=10159

Gnome also comes with something similar.

In addition to the standard 'du' command, which you can sort and munge with the standard unix stuff, Gnome has bundled the 'baobab' utility for the last few releases (so if you're on a relatively recent Gnome release, you probably already have it installed). It has an interactive "rings" view and a "treemap" view, which are both pretty nifty.

I've always stuck with du | xdu. Except for the primitive rendering it is rather reminiscent of webtreemap (or vice versa, i guess) -- click to dive down, top to go back up.

You can get a pretty interactive treemap of the linux filesytem using http://gdmap.sourceforge.net/

[screenshot] http://gdmap.sourceforge.net/img/gdmap-preview.png

You can also see a treemap of the kernel although it is static http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/millionvis/Treemap_Visualization_...

For Gnome, it's called baobab (in Applications -> Accessories -> Disk Usage Analyzer).

In Ubuntu the default "Disk Usage Analyser" (the projeect name is "Boabab") in Applications -> Accessories does this.

By default it's a ring chart but there's a menu to select treemap instead. The authors seem to believe that treemaps are good for comparing only size, but the ring chart shows hierarchy well too.

http://www.marzocca.net/linux/baobab/baobab-ringschart.html

http://www.marzocca.net/linux/baobab/baobab-treemaps.html

It's very handy:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treemapping

For displaying files on the disk it's actually patented.

http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/5987469.html

Estimated Expiration Date: May 13, 2017

Interesting. My first thought on finishing your post was "How rude; you've tainted us all with the knowledge of a that patent." Evidence of manners in the making I suppose; adaptation of custom in the face of seemingly immovable, shared burdens.

"How rude; you've tainted us all with the knowledge of a that patent."

What is required to prove willful patent infringement? Is "Defendant's web history shows (s)he accessed a web page on which someone claimed the patent existed" sufficient?

EDIT: "Defendant", not "plaintiff".

In most development scenarios you are actually interested to know which patents can potentially get you sued so please explain how exactly is the awareness of the patent existence of the disadvantage to you.

Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patent_infringement_under_Unite...):

> If an infringer is found to have deliberately infringed a patent (i.e. "willful" infringement), then punitive damages can be assessed up to three times the actual damages. Legal fees can also be assessed.

If it cannot be proven that an infringer had knowledge of the patent, though, the damages that can be assessed are substantially lower.

Thank you.

I'd still like to know how can you as the developer and your software survive in either scenario (with or without knowing that you infringe) it the patent covers the basic functionality of your software?

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