I freed 30GB using Filelight

[atzanteol@sh.itjust.works]

I freed 50gb by running 'docker system prune'...

[eager_eagle@lemmy.world]

last year I had over 1TB freed by docker system prune on a dev VM. If you're building images often, that's a mandatory command to run once in a while.

[rmrf@lemmy.ml]

paccache -r got me about the same

[lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network]

I once freed 28 GB using find ~/Downloads/ -mtime +30 -delete

[perishthethought@lemm.ee]

Oh, that reminds me,...

[bricked@feddit.org]

I freed my entire disk by removing the French language pack

[thisisbutaname@discuss.tchncs.de]

For the curious, rm - fr /

[jode@midwest.social]

Is this a Linux version of windirstat?

[some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org]

I'm here to promote fclones. I've used it twice and recovered over a terabyte on my NAS the last time I used it. I'm not affiliated. Hyperspace for Mac is similar (but different) and I haven't used it, but it was developed by my favorite nerd podcast host. I'm planning to test it out eventually, but the latest fclones run was only about a month ago, so it doesn't make sense to try it yet.

[mvirts@lemmy.world]

I'm more of a baobab person myself

[mrsoup@lemmy.zip]

I recommend it too. It's simple as doing:

sudo rm -rf /

Where "-rf" obviously stands for "remove french".

[neatobuilds@lemmy.today]

That's when you know it's time for a fresh install

[solarpunker@slrpnk.net]

Nah, in a rolling distro it's normal, they were mostly unused stuff hide in /home, and useless yay pkg.

[gustavom@lemmy.world]

This is why I've set up a ramdisk on ~/.cache and ~/Downloads -- "free" automatic cleanup plus a tad more of performance because why not.

[folekaule@lemmy.world]

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.

[chivera@lemmy.world]

Does Linux have spacesniffer?

[emb@lemmy.world]

There's a more direct version of that, I guess from KDE, called KdirStat.

I hadn't heard of the one in the op. But if I had to guess, it looks like it's a different take on the same idea.

[eskuero@lemmy.fromshado.ws]

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

[knightly@pawb.social]

Omfg.

I was trying to remember the name of kdirstat ladt night when I stumbled across filelight and made use of that instead.

And now there'sa thread on this exact topic. Y'all need to quit it with all this Truman Show nonsense, Baader-Meinhof alone isn't enough to explain how frequently shit like this happens. XD

[commander@lemmings.world]

I love Filelight. Whoever came up with it is brilliant.