Baobab – Graphically Analyze File Trees October 25, 2005
Posted by Carthik in applications, ubuntu.trackback
Baobab is cool little tool to analyze disk space usage graphically. It displays the space used by directories on your hard drive, so you know what’s eating up all your space. It is sort of the like the application called “tree” that’s available for windows. Baobabs are large trees, usually found in Africa – so that’s a real nice name for the tool.
You can, of course install it in Breezy by doing a
$sudo apt-get install baobab
Ubuntu Blog 
Just for us KDE folks, if you’re after the KDE app of this functionality, try KDirStat. I have not tried Baobab (this is in fact the first I hear of it), but it definitely has a much more interesting name than KDirStat. 🙂
Cheers mate.
Also, there is filelight which shows pi charts for disk usage. Very nice looking tool.
I ran the command that you posted. Everything seemed to work ok; however, how do I run the application. Yes I am new to Ubuntu.
Thank you for your time.
Brian, you can also open a terminal and type
$baobab & (the and at the end detaches the gui app from the terminal, sort of)
It should also be in your menus somewhere. (application->accessories->Baobab)
Also, there is filelight which shows pi charts for disk usage. Very nice looking tool.
Brian, you can also open a terminal and type
$baobab & (the and at the end detaches the gui app from the terminal, sort of)