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Personally I find treemaps hard to read, and for getting an idea of what's taking up space on a disk I much prefer pie charts like [1]. My favourite for Windows is Scanner by Steffen Gerlach[2]. I haven't found a good one for Mac yet.

[1] http://www.steffengerlach.de/freeware/scnshot.gif [2] http://www.steffengerlach.de/freeware/

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There's a rough open source clone of Filelight for Macs[1]. Disclaimer: I'm the original author, but no longer involved.

A commercial app in the same genre, DaisyDisk[2], is much more flashy and polished. You can also get the KDE/Mac version filelight from MacPorts, as part of package 'kdeutils4'.

[1] https://github.com/jvhaarst/MacFileLight [2] http://www.daisydiskapp.com/

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