The FlexTk file management toolkit includes a built-in storage utilization analyzer
allowing one to scan disks and complete storage systems and visualize storage utilization
patterns. The user is provided with the ability to browse files and directories sorted
by the used storage space, identify disk utilization hotspots and export storage utilization
reports into a number of standard formats such as HTML, Excel CSV and ASCII text.
Another way to analyze the storage utilization is to display a hierarchy of file types sorted
by the amount of storage space consumed by each of them. By clicking on file class groups and
file classed, the user is provided with the ability to browse the hierarchy and identify files
that have wasted the available storage space.
After a short analysis, we have identified that the following causes are most significant from the amount of
wasted storage space point of view: software or video DVD images, music files and photos. All these files
require a lot of storage capacity and even a couple of unused ISO DVD images hiding in an old directory may
significantly reduce the amount of available disk space.
Over time, people tend to forget about old software DVD backups, huge amounts of digital photos waiting to
be organized since last summer and tons of video downloads, which are already burned to CD/DVD media. As you
in a situation in which you have no space left on your hard disk, the simplest way to reclaim wasted storage
space is to find these unused files, which are typically holding about 30-40% of all the available disk space.
