Baobab (also called Disk Usage Analyzer) is a utility program default to Ubuntu that serves the purpose of disk usage analyzer that is showing ranking of directories in the filesystem based on used capacity in megabytes. With Baobab, you know which folder takes up how much space in comparison to other folders in a complete list. Further, this is very useful for example if you plan to remove some unused folders to free disk space but don't know which folders are safe to remove. And to Ubuntu users, Baobab fills the same purposes as KDE Filelight to Kubuntu users as well as WinDirStat (GNU GPL) to Windows users. Now let's start reading!

 

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This is a simple guide to check your Ubuntu disk usage using built-in program named  Disk Usage Analyzer. With this, you can view ranking of folders measured by each size. This may help you finding and removing unused folders to free you some disk space. Let's try it!

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Continuing our Fedora articles (click here and here), now here is our traditional list of tips & tricks to begin with Fedora after installing it to our computer but with the point of view of an Ubuntu user. Currently, we are having Fedora version 32 to Rawhide, ranging between versions 3.38 to 40 of its GNOME desktop, and these are applicable to any of them and hopefully in the future versions as well. Okay, now let's try Fedora together and go!

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With Baobab, you can analyze what folders eat up your disk capacity the most then show the result in an user-friendly table. You can choose whether to examine Home folder only, or the whole Root System, or any specific partition/external disk, or even a specific folder. Baobab's analysis process is very quick and easy to do. You can do the examination in Ubuntu and also Trisquel (however, the Trisquel's Baobab is MATE Disk Usage Analyzer).

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