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Gizmo's Freeware directory featured WinDirStat in a January 2010 list of best free disk analysis software with a 4 of 5 stars review, noting: "The open source program WinDirStat is [an] outstanding program. It uses three ways to display the disk usage: a directory list, a file extension list and a rectangular treemap.
The software gives the user a menu-driven, graphical representation of what is on a disk drive. [3] The interface allows for selection of specific parts of filesystem being scanned so a single folder, the entire filesystem, and even remote folders and filesystems can be scanned. [ 4 ]
When Everything first runs, it creates an index of the names of every file and folder on all NTFS and ReFS volumes [4] on the system from file metadata, in the case of NTFS from the NTFS Master File Table. [5] By default, all mounted NTFS and ReFS [4] volumes are indexed. [6]
[3] It is free for all uses, but donations are suggested. [2] No source code is available. Notable features include: A treemap represents how disk capacity is allocated. [4] Filters (based on file name, age, size, etc.) enable the user to focus the visualisation on files and folders of interest. [4]
According to PCWorld.com, as of September 2, 2010, the product was a little more cumbersome than necessary but overall was considered to have an edge over Space Sniffer (a freeware alternative) because it had additional functionality and provided more information.
By 1991, XTree had sold over 3 million copies and was released in over a half-dozen languages. [ 3 ] Even in its earliest version XTree contained features like listing all files of a branch, including subdirectories, listing of all files on a disk, [ 4 ] or viewing a file's contents in text or hexadecimal format (regardless of its file ...
The conversion involves creating a copy of the whole ext2/3/4 metadata, while the Btrfs files simply point to the same blocks used by the ext2/3/4 files. This makes the bulk of the blocks shared between the two filesystems before the conversion becomes permanent.
Further changes introduced in Mac OS X Tiger, specifically version 10.4.3, allowed Disk Utility to be used to verify the file structure of the current boot drive. Mac OS X Leopard added the ability to create, resize, and delete disk partitions without erasing them, a feature known as live partitioning.