Scanner is a disk space analyzing and management tool for

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operating systems. It displays the disk space usage of any drive or directory in the form of a multilevel pie chart which can be navigated up and down through the directory tree. When the mouse cursor is placed above a pie the program displays which directory the pie represents, how many files it contains and the overall disk space occupied by it. A context menu allows users to open the directory inside the

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, hide and un-hide it from the diagram as well as deleting the pie from the disk either via the

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or permanently. Initially released in 1999, it is an early example of the

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method of visualising disk usage and inspired the

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package

Filelight Filelight is a graphical disk usage analyzer part of the KDE Gear. Instead of showing a tree view of the files within a partition or directory, or even a columns-represent-directories view like ''xdiskusage'', it shows a series of concentric p ...

. Excerpt from source code of Filelight acknowledging inspiration of Scanner.

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* Disk usage analysis software {{storage-software-stub