And that's all, I'm happy since I was out of space.
Is there any disk usage tool that allows you to browse the tree while it's still being calculated, prioritizing current directory?
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My dad's Linux setup couldn't log in. After a bit of investigation, starting the session manually and so on, i got a hunch and indeed; i saw in Baobab that the backup script took the wrong disk, filled up the one with home, making it slow, so the log-in thingie timed out, failing the session.
this looks exactly like gnome disk usage analyzer
I freed 50gb by running 'docker system prune'...
I'm new to docker and all of my shit stopped working recently. Just wouldn't load. Took about a half hour to find out that old images were taking up about 63GB on my 100GB boot partition, resulting in it being completely full.
I added the command to prune 3 month old images to my update scripts.
Yeah, it's really not called out in the docs. I found out the same way.
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No one showing love for ncdu around here?
Looks like the Gnome Disk Usage Analyzer but for KDE.
That's a weird way to spell Baobab
To be fair Baobab is a weird way to spell Baobab
Clean all the cache downloads of Arch Linux Packages
pacman -Scc
Remove unused docker networks and images
docker system prune --all
Cleanup untracked git files that might be in .gitignore such as build and out directories (beware of losing data, use "n" instead of "f" for a dry run)
git clean -xdf
Do an aggresive pruning of objects in git (MIGHT BE VERY SLOW)
git gc --aggressive --prune=now
Remove old journal logs, keeping last seven days
journalctl --vacuum-time 7days
Remove pip cache
pip cache purge
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Personally I'm loving diskonaut. "Graphical" representation but at, ahem, terminal velocity.
Jesus, that rustup folder is HUGE
One of the things I dislike about Rust is the massive amount of disk space and time it takes to do a download, compile, test run.
2GB of dependencies and build files for a 200K binary is a bit much.
The always huge and killing my system space:
- pacman cache
- docker bullshit
- flatpaks
- journalctl files!
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