Zdu A little tool that can come in handy when cleaning up your hard-drive
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Zdu Description

Zdu was developed to be the ultimate disk and directory diagnostic / management command-line utility. The one and only you'll ever need! A great tool for administrators and/or the home user. Zdu is first and foremost designed to be used from the command-line, all features here below are available in the console version only. There is a GUI, but it is kind of simplistic; it is mostly available for accessibility reasons, and tend to lag behind in updates. Main features: The GUI version can integrate in Windows' Explorer context menus for easy access. Works in Windows9x/ME and NT(intel)/2000 and XP (the GUI requires MFC v6.0+). Include and exclude regular expression patterns for both files and directories. Database output mode (CSV really), to make it easier to process in a database (for statistics and such). Display general disk information. Support for FAT(8-16), FAT32 and NTFS 4 & 5. UNC paths supported (network shares need not be mounted). Compressed files are supported (the actual size on disk is used) (NTFS only) Sparse files support (NTFS 5 only). Reparse points support (currently skipped) (NTFS 5 only). Filter by owner. Can be set for only files or both file & directories (NTFS only). Disply usage by Directory, by Extension and by Owner (NTFS only). Collect usage from non-standard streams (a.k.a. ADS) (NTFS only). An include and exclude file pattern can be specified to scan only certain files (and/or directories). Possibility to set qualifiers of various reported data. Depending on qualifiers mark the directories/extension/users in the output, or only display those that qualified. Control the Zdu process' return code depending on qualifier result. Display storage efficiency (the inversion of wasted space, more is better). Display clusters or bytes, with optional kilo-base. "fake" cluster size, enabling to visualize how much space the folder would allocate if the disk had a different cluster size. (on e.g. a CD-ROM). All output information is configurable, and all output lists can be sorted by any column. The console version is suitable for running in scheduled jobs, e.g. in scripts.

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