Filelight — The Complete Guide: A Simple Ring Map of What Fills Your Disk
Filelight, from KDE, is a visual disk usage analyser, open source (GPL-2.0 or later) and free for any use. On Linux it comes from the distribution repository, and on Windows the official install is through the Microsoft Store.
Filelight
KDE
An interactive ring map of disk usage from KDE, for Linux and Windows, to spot heavy folders quickly.
Get it from the vendorWhat you get
- Ring map — the chosen folder in the centre, and each outer ring shows its subfolders.
- Hover and click — name and size on hover, enter a folder with a click.
- Delete from the map — remove what is not needed without hunting for it in a file manager.
- Any kind of drive — local, removable and remote.
- KDE integration — open it directly from KDE file managers.
Who it suits
Users who prefer a clear picture over tables and want a quick answer to what is filling the disk. Deleting from the map is a real delete — check that the folder does not hold the only copy of a project before you click. There is no file-type table or reports as in WinDirStat, and on a very large drive the scan is slower than WizTree.
Related tools
For more detailed analysis on Linux — QDirStat. For very fast scans on Windows — WizTree. For duplicate files — Czkawka.
QDirStat
Stefan Hundhammer
A WinDirStat-style disk-usage map for Linux: a folder tree and a coloured treemap that show what takes up space.
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WizTree
Antibody Software
An extremely fast disk-space analyser — finds huge model, mesh and result files in seconds.
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WinDirStat
WinDirStat team
A visual map of disk usage — find huge model, mesh and result files that are filling the drive.
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Czkawka / Krokiet
Rafał Mikrut (qarmin)
Finds duplicate files, similar images and videos, empty folders and big files, in a fast open-source tool with no ads.
Get it from the vendorThe bottom line
The simple, good-looking way to see where the space went, without learning a single screen.