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I freed 30GB using Filelight

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    And that's all, I'm happy since I was out of space.

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

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

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      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.

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        Lol I had no idea it relied on so much. Its just built into KDE. Really great app overall.

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        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.

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        • A [email protected]

          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.

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          Wooosh 😉

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          • S [email protected]

            Jesus, that rustup folder is HUGE

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            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.

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              [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.

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              It being KDE is even less reason to use it

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                And that's all, I'm happy since I was out of space.

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                Personally I'm a huge fan of dust

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                  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.

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

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                  • M [email protected]

                    Isn't that a wayland notification daemon already?

                    Edit: no, that's dunst.

                    Btw, how do you do the background color thing?

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

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                    • xnx@slrpnk.netX [email protected]

                      (This is a joke don’t do this or you’ll ruin your computer)

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

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                      • C [email protected]

                        Fclones is a great tool, but it's for finding duplicate files and replacing them with sym-/hard-/reflinks.

                        I recommend using the --cache option to make subsequent runs extremely quick.

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                        --cache option

                        I will check this out!

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                          @EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted Don't worry. English for clmminicarion is just fine. It was not meant to be malicious.
                          I just saw this video sooo many times, it was kind of a standard response.

                          BÄÄM is like the German version of BOOM in comics.
                          Therefore "BÄM Lee" because he knocks people out with one punch.

                          Its spoken like the beginning of BAd behaviour. Maybe that's helpful. 😊

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                          Oh that's funny x3

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                            I create a cron job with something like: docker system prune -af --filter="until=XXh" where XX is on the order of a few days.

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                            prune as fuck

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                              It being KDE is even less reason to use it

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

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                              • C [email protected]

                                These tools are also useful for finding large files in your home directory. E.g. I've found a large amount of Linux ISOs I didn't need anymore.

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                                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.

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                                • avidamoeba@lemmy.caA [email protected]

                                  That kinda makes sense at this stage. If you spend time understanding what those commands do, you'd understand how the system works, and most importantly how to not fuck it up. Keep in mind there's a lot of misinformation and bad practices in guides out there. People who bare know more than you feel confident to share snippets without warning. Ten or twenty years ago much fewer people had experience with Linux and most people confident enough to write were technical people that knew what they were talking about. Destructive misinformation was less.

                                  But yeah when you learn, the need or urge to reinstall disappears. I stopped reinstalling in 2014. Took me 9 years to unfuck my Windows brain and understand enough to not shoot myself in the feet. Main machine hasn't been reinstalled since then. That's with replacing multiple main boards, switching AMD > Intel > AMD, changing SSDs, going from single SSD to mdraid, increasing in size over time, etc.

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                                  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

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                                    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

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                                    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. 😂

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                                      And that's all, I'm happy since I was out of space.

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                                      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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                                      • swedneck@discuss.tchncs.deS [email protected]

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

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                                        You do realise that you’re a waste of life and nobody will remember you when you die?

                                        Why get this hostile over a random software? I hate their shit because it’s absurdly bloated and a pain to remove.

                                        You’re a worthless loser and you know it as well as we do.

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                                        • I [email protected]

                                          I can see you're not using Flatpak, the destroyer of disk space. Nice list though!

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                                          Uninstall unused flatpak dependencies:

                                          flatpak uninstall --unused

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