I freed 30GB using Filelight
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flatpak install flathub org.kde.filelight
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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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[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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I normally use
rm
for that. Orwipefs
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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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Wooosh
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Personally I'm a huge fan of dust
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Yeah, it's really not called out in the docs. I found out the same way.
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--cache option
I will check this out!
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Oh that's funny x3
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prune as fuck
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you do realize this makes everyone immediately discard your opinion, because it's useless, right?
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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
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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