Tool to show the recent disk space consumers?

[Kurt Buff]

On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 12:37, Yuri <yuri at rawbw.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I hit this problem periodically when a lot of disk space is gone and it's
> hard to tell where did it go. Once it was thunderbird writing huge index
> file as a consequence of some bug, on another occasion it was the bug in KDE
> writing some huge index somewhere in ~/.kde4.
>
> Is there a tool slowly indexing the file system and showing where exactly
> did the sudden growth of consumed space occur?
>
> I know about du(1) but I am looking for some program that can detect the
> dynamics and pinpoint the offending files.
>
> Yuri

kdirstat might prove useful, if it's run periodically.

Kurt