Linux.com: Picture Your Disk Space with 3-D Filesystem Browsers

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Nov 2, 2006

“You don’t need a Ph.D. in scientific visualization to have some
fun with three-dimensional data. Whether you’re searching for an
unused nook in a cramped disk partition, or trying to find the
bloated temp/ folder that’s crashing your system, sometimes the
flat folder view of a traditional GUI file browser is little help.
Luckily, Linux offers a variety of 3-D filesystem that can make
your disk usage statistics come alive.

“Take File System Visualizer (FSV), for instance. When you
launch FSV, the view port brings up a 3-D palette representing the
current working directory…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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