What is a good tool to scan a FTP directory and show disk usage visually ala KDirStat/WinDirStat? [closed]

Solution 1:

I've done this by using a third party utility to map an FTP site to a drive letter and then using my directory reporting tool to scan the mapped drive (I use FolderSizes 4). Here are two that I've used:

http://www.killprog.com/fdrve.html

http://www.divshare.com/download/2012951-371

Note: This is a Windows solution.

Solution 2:

Adding to the brilliant joeqwerty idea, you can use curlftpfs on Linux. It uses FUSE to mount a remote FTP directory into a local directory.

Then, you can just use a one-liner shell command...

du -skc * | sort -n

Or use ncdu on the terminal. Or use graphical programs like xdiskusage or filelight or baobab.

If you have ssh access to the server, maybe installing philesight might be a nice idea (or using sshfs instead of curlftpfs).