I freed 30GB using Filelight

[Guest]

https://github.com/imsnif/diskonaut

No package for my distro, I "installed" an AppImage with AM (which is also how I discovered it)

[joelk111@lemmy.world]

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.

[moonpiedumplings@programming.dev]

[moonpie@osiris ~]$ du -h $(which filelight)
316K    /usr/bin/filelight

K = kilobytes.

[moonpie@osiris ~]$ pacman -Ql filelight | awk '{print $2}' | xargs du | awk '{print $1}' | paste -sd+ | bc
45347740

(45347740 bytes is 43.247 megabytes).

KDE packages have many dependencies, which cause the packages themselves to be extremely tiny. By sharing a ton of code via libraries, they save a lot of space.

[bhamlin@lemmy.world]

I normally use rm for that. Or wipefs if I'm feeling particularly spicy.

[allero@lemmy.today]

Filelight is about finding the folders you don't use that take a lot of space. Basically an easier way to look into which folder takes up what.

[Guest]

Basically all KDE apps have the same dependency set. So install one and the next ones will only install the app most likely. On KDE itself you'd already have these.

[bhamlin@lemmy.world]

Wooosh

[Guest]

One of the things I dislike about Rust is the massive amount of disk space it takes to do a download, compile, test run.
2GB of dependencies and build files for a 200K binary is a bit much.

[Guest]

It being KDE is even less reason to use it

[somenonewho@feddit.org]

Personally I'm a huge fan of dust

[atzanteol@sh.itjust.works]

Yeah, it's really not called out in the docs. I found out the same way.

[Guest]

Now someone needs to do a rewrite of dunst in rust called runst to make the confusion complete.

[Guest]

You can run it without causing any problems if you add the --no-preserve-root flag as well of course

[some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org]

--cache option

I will check this out!

[everymuffinisnowencrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

Oh that's funny x3

[swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de]

prune as fuck

[swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de]

you do realize this makes everyone immediately discard your opinion, because it's useless, right?

[eneff@discuss.tchncs.de]

My users home directory is ephemeral as well, so this wouldn't happen. Everything I didn't declare to persist is deleted on reboot.

What I do use tools like these for is verifying that my persistent storage paths are properly bind mounted and files end up in the correct filesystem.

I use dust for this, specifically with the -x flag to not traverse multiple filesystems.

[neatobuilds@lemmy.today]

So now I'm curious what distro you like most? I've been using popos for about a year at this point then tried fedora for about a week and now installed arch to feel around

[avidamoeba@lemmy.ca]

The machine that was last installed in 2014 is Ubuntu LTS. It's been upgraded through all the LTS releases since then. Currently on 22.04 with the free Ubuntu Pro enabled. I use a mix of Ubuntu LTS and Debian stable on other machines. For example my laptop is on Debian 12. Debian has been the most reliable OS and community for over 30 years and I believe it'll still be around 30 years from now, if we haven't destroyed ourselves.