What's taking up my hard disk space? Awesome FOSS app will show you!

Disk Inventory X is a great little FOSS app that will display all the data on your hard disk visually so you can see what is taking up space. Each file is represented by a block, its size determined by the file size and its color determined by its file type. Great for finding large, unnecessary files you don't know about to save disk space!

I've actually tried this out on my external My Book Drive, and it does a good job, showing what is xactly on my drive. It turns out that most of my drive is taken up with Jpeg images, probibly from the fact that that the camera I use most of the time takes 6 megapixel photos, and they usually round around in the one to two meg size per photo. Lucky for me my external drive has in total storage around 160 gigs, that should settle me for awhile. Because this is only for OSX there are other programs for other operating systems, JDiskReport (All platforms: http://www.jgoodies.com/freeware/jdiskreport/index.html), WinDirStat (Windows, OSS: http://windirstat.sourceforge.net/), SequioaView (Windows: http://www.win.tue.nl/sequoiaview/),. There are more programs that do this sort of thing, but I wanted to just list a few alternatives, for people who do not have macs. If anyone has any other recommendations for software that does the same things as Disk Inventory X, you can comment here your preferred programs...

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