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[Pelo]

Somewhere I am happy of the interest for the matter.
Alternatives EmelFM, tree, Baobab are fine. They are alternatives only.
Using them for big directories will slow down your computer too. Hum... If you have so big directories, I think that you own a big computer which the processor will do that job easily !
2 or 3 seconds is faster than all other methods (right-click or opening a different tool). I just say :'it would be fine Rox-filer does it'. Ask them !

[Pelo]

display 'sort by size' (rigtht-click in the window) sorts apparently repositories by size. I must check further.
It would be one step forward to my wish, not perfect, but better.Without having to use another tool.
Sure size shown beside would be the best.
I had a glance to rox-filer manual (in english, so be aware of my will)... I learned a lot of things. Unhappily, i didn't found my happiness.

[Flash]

[Pelo]

Many other filesystems show the sum of the repositories . I just want Rox-filer doing the same, to avoid loading another file system

I Give up !

[musher0]

[Pelo]

EmelFM, XFE dont sum the repositories.
Musher is right, i was deceived by the column size in Emelfm. The number shown is not the sum of contents. Sorry Musher.

[amigo]

Yeah, I doubt any file managers are showing dir sizes -it would simply slow every operation down -to a crawl sometimes. I have about 45GB of stuff under /usr. If I let du calculate the disk usage, it takes nearly ten minutes to complete. rox would take even more time because of updating the display. So, if this feature was built-in and I open rox in '/', then it would be at least ten minutes before I could navigate in to any directory there.

You can get a sense of how slow it might be by opening rox in /usr/bin or somewhere where there are thousands of files -or trun thumbnails on and navigate into a dir which contains hundreds of jpg images.

I agree that visualizing file/dir sizes is very useful. I use gdmap for the purpose as it is a pure gtk/gdk application. In fact, I use and old gtk-1.2 version which took me forever to find...

I like very much the pie-chart view which baobab seems to provide, but am unwilling to depend on 123 GNOME packages to have the feature...

[greengeek]

[simargl]

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[SFR]

There's also Worker (I found it yesterday, it's obviously inspired by Amiga's DirOpus), which can do it on demand.
It's enough to just select all directories (e.g. by pressing 'Invert selection' button) and then press 'Dirsize' button (see screenshot).
But yeah, it takes some time...

@Greengeek:
That's probably the answer:
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/55/what-does-size-of-a-directory-mean-in-output-of-ls-l-command

Greetings!

[musher0]

Hello,all.

I've reworked the totaldir.sh script. Enjoy!

[Pelo]

Ytree dans le PPM Puppy 2 est un tar.gz ! En console çà répond not found.
Peux-tu y mettre ta touche ? En faire un pet qui fonctionne ...

[musher0]

[Pelo]

Dirax fullfilled my wish, showing where are the fat files. It avoids me opening each directory. Musher0, once again, you answer the question !
But i go on exploring the matter.
Ytree and treesize seem efficient tools too. Is my english clear enough ?
Musher dit it ! in a few seconds. What an efficiency !

[musher0]