---
name: "fsview"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "konq-plugins"
version: "4:4.4.0-2"
release: "Debian 6.0 (Squeeze)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/fsview"
---

# fsview(1)

a filesystem viewer that graphically shows disk usage

## NAME

fsview - a filesystem viewer that graphically shows disk usage

## SYNOPSIS

**fsview** \[ *generic-options* \] \[ *folder* \]

## DESCRIPTION

**FSView** is a tool for showing disc utilization in a graphical form, much like the UNIX command 'du'.  The visualisation type chosen is a treemap.  Each directory is represented by a rectangle whose area is proportional to its size.  Each directory rectangle contains smaller rectangles for its contents, and so on down.

FSView is provided both as a Konqueror plugin for viewing directories, and as a standalone executable.

This application is part of the official KDE add-ons module.

## OPTIONS

Below are the fsview-specific options. For a full summary of options, run *fsview --help*.

- *folder*

  View the filesystem starting from this folder.

## SEE ALSO

[**du**(1)](/du/1.md), [**kdirstat**(1)](/kdirstat/1.md), [**konqueror**(1)](/konqueror/1.md).

For a full featured graphical 'du', see KDirStat.  It's quite similar to FSView, but allows for lot of cleanup actions.

## AUTHOR

FSView was written by Josef Weidendorfer \<Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de\>.\
 This manual page was prepared by Ben Burton \<bab@debian.org\> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).