I freed 30GB using Filelight

[coolmojo@lemmy.world]

flatpak install flathub org.kde.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