salihgerdan/spaceman

Treemap disk usage analyzer: In search of lost space

spaceman's Issues

Feature request: progress bar

I suggest to add a progress bar while the tool is analyzing the space. Sometimes it takes some minutes, but most importantly you don't know if it already finished or not, or how much is left.

please add a refresh button

The cleaning process is iterative: you run the tool (Spaceman), choose a couple of things to delete, and then you want to run it again to see what to delete next.
Could you please add a "refresh" button (or re-run) so no need to select the disk again saving some clicks?

Feature request: option to not cross filesystem boundaries

An option to not cross filesystem boundaries (e.g. if /home is mounted from another filesystem, do not enter it when scanning /).

Some other tools use -x command line option for this.

Better hardlink handling

I have a project where there is lots of shared state between various versions, which is handled using hardlinks.

Spaceman and du give different results.

Example on a directory of about 1 GB with 14 subdirectories sharing a lot of data:
du -hs . ; du -hs *; du -hs 2

963M    .
694M    1
20M     2
21M     3
21M     4
21M     5
21M     6
21M     7
22M     8
21M     9
22M     10
21M     11
21M     12
21M     13
21M     14
694M    2

As you can see, du only assigns the size of each inode to the first directory it encounters it in, avoiding double-counting as long as it happens within a single run.

However, spaceman says that every folder is about 690 MB, and gives a total of 9.2 GB. This is very misleading when it comes to finding stuff to delete.

I'm not sure what a good approach would be, but this makes spaceman quite a bit less useful for me.

Feature request: right click options

Proposal: enable a context menu with actions on the boxes, for example:

• open containing folder
• delete