You can get a pretty interactive treemap of the linux filesytem using http://gdmap.sourceforge.net/

[screenshot] http://gdmap.sourceforge.net/img/gdmap-preview.png

You can also see a treemap of the kernel although it is static http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/millionvis/Treemap_Visualization_...

I use KDirStat http://kdirstat.sourceforge.net/

Someone is working on a kde4 port, see comments at http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php/KDirStat?content=10159

Gnome also comes with something similar.

In addition to the standard 'du' command, which you can sort and munge with the standard unix stuff, Gnome has bundled the 'baobab' utility for the last few releases (so if you're on a relatively recent Gnome release, you probably already have it installed). It has an interactive "rings" view and a "treemap" view, which are both pretty nifty.

In Ubuntu the default "Disk Usage Analyser" (the projeect name is "Boabab") in Applications -> Accessories does this.

By default it's a ring chart but there's a menu to select treemap instead. The authors seem to believe that treemaps are good for comparing only size, but the ring chart shows hierarchy well too.

http://www.marzocca.net/linux/baobab/baobab-ringschart.html

http://www.marzocca.net/linux/baobab/baobab-treemaps.html

I use WinDirStat for Windows http://windirstat.sourceforge.net/

du -hs /home/* | sort -k 1,1

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Hmm, that and the Mac and Windows utilities linked don't seem to be doing what's needed to generate this Chrome view, though. The Chrome binary is a single file on disk, and this treeview is digging into it to figure out which components contribute to the final size of the statically linked binary.

I've always stuck with du | xdu. Except for the primitive rendering it is rather reminiscent of webtreemap (or vice versa, i guess) -- click to dive down, top to go back up.

For Gnome, it's called baobab (in Applications -> Accessories -> Disk Usage Analyzer).