a convenient application to fast locate fat files and folders (linux & mac)
The simplest solution is to execute
cargo install --locked whalespotter
Pass the desired path:
whalespotter ~
xdg-open)Note: reported sizes take blocks into account, so they may be smaller than the nominal size for the rare sparse files.
Whalespotter is dedicated to one use case: spotting big directories and files. If your goal is to clean your disk, you might be interested in the more recent set of tools I developped. They're described in this blog post.