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How to visually observe the partitions' usage with Ubuntu 13.10's Disk Usage Analyzer
Movies, books, audio tracks are among the content types often populating the user's harddisk, aspect that usually generates various issues, such as lack of space and not clearly understanding its main cause.
Ubuntu 13.10 ships by default Disk Usage Analyzer, handy utility permitting to the user to have a rapid-yet-effective look at the files and folders occupying the harddisk via graphical easily-graspable visuals.
Launching Disk Usage Analyzer, faces the user with all harddisk partitions labeled with name, size and available space, clicking on an entry, opens the entry into a dedicated interface where the partition is scanned and exposed with its items.
As a consequence, the user is to observe the items and their sizes via both sidebar (text based) and right-side, latter featuring a clear representation of the opened partitions; hovering the mouse pointer over the visual, reveals its size and contained items.
Disk Usage Analyzer allows, therefore, to the user to spot potentially-faulty folders unnoticed until now, for example, the user can immediately discover a big-sized element (the bigger the element, the bigger the size) occupying a significant portion of the partition, yet, due to its name, has remain unnoticed.
via: http://iloveubuntu.net/how-visually-observe-partitions-usage-ubuntu-1310s-disk-usage-analyzer