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On Fri, Oct 07, 2011 at 11:47:07AM -0400, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> So, what I am looking for is either some decent tools I can use that are
> less time consuming than looking at du output.

This article lists 6 tools in the Baobab, Filelight, etc, family:

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-analyze-your-disk-usage-pattern-in-linux/

I use du2rrd for watching disk usage trends on some of my file systems:

http://oss.oetiker.ch/optools/wiki/du2rrd

-ben

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