[Edgy] Disk manager missing

Vincent Trouilliez vincent.trouilliez at modulonet.fr
Tue Oct 24 20:22:09 UTC 2006


Paul Williams <paul at smoothweb.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 09:42 +0300, Ari Torhamo wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I don't seem to have the disk manager program (Administration -> Disks)
> > present in my Edgy installation (RC, with latest updates), or at least I
> > can't find a menu item for it. Before reporting a bug, I'd like to know
> > if anyone else has the same problem, and perhaps get some advice on what
> > additional information I could put into my report (system files?).
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Ari
> > 
> I believe they replaced it with a program called "Disk Usage Analyzer",
> located at '/usr/bin/baobab'
> I think that this is pretty lame. 


Hmmmm, the disk manager and Baobab are very different programs. The former doesn't analyze anything, it just reports (hardware) information about the disks, and let's you see partitions, and mount/unmount them. However in practice I found it not very useful and buggy, with no improvement over the past 12 months. 
I would assume that's why it was removed, and I rather agree with this decision... ;-)
Baobab is more useful, though I find the type of data representation difficult to figure out, and not very good looking (of course each to their own ;-). I remember another disk usage analyser written by one of the lead Ubuntu devs, Scott James Remnant IIRC, who used a different type of representation which I find more intuitive and more elegant/attractive graphically. I forgot the name of his software, and ISTR it's not in the Ubuntu repo, but at the time I tried it, I liked it. I also think that disk usage should not be a separate program, but simply be tightly integrated with file manager. You could could just right-click on a folder for example (or drive icon), and select "show break-down" or something.

--
Vince




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