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I freed 30GB using Filelight

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  • S [email protected]

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

    gustavom@lemmy.worldG This user is from outside of this forum
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    #15

    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.

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    • eager_eagle@lemmy.worldE [email protected]

      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.

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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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      • S [email protected]

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

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        Does Linux have spacesniffer?

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        • jode@midwest.socialJ [email protected]

          Is this a Linux version of windirstat?

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          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.

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          • S [email protected]

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

            eskuero@lemmy.fromshado.wsE This user is from outside of this forum
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            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

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            • E [email protected]

              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.

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              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

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              • S [email protected]

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

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                #21

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

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                • S [email protected]

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

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                  #22

                  i use https://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdu for this

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                  • C [email protected]

                    Does Linux have spacesniffer?

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                    No, and I miss it. Space sniffer was so good.

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                    • knightly@pawb.socialK [email protected]

                      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

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                      Y'all need to quit it with all this Truman Show nonsense

                      Oh shit, he's onto us!

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                      • gustavom@lemmy.worldG [email protected]

                        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.

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                        I might do that just to force myself to organize and move files out of downloads.

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                        • dm9pzcaq@lemmy.mlD [email protected]

                          i use https://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdu for this

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                          Also dust

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                          • V [email protected]

                            Y'all need to quit it with all this Truman Show nonsense

                            Oh shit, he's onto us!

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                            Cheese it!

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                            • jode@midwest.socialJ [email protected]

                              Is this a Linux version of windirstat?

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                              There's also QDirStat which is like KDirStat but without KDE dependencies.

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                              • mrsoup@lemmy.zipM [email protected]

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

                                sudo rm -rf /
                                

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

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

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                                • eskuero@lemmy.fromshado.wsE [email protected]

                                  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

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                                  #30

                                  Remove unused conda packages and caches:

                                  conda clean --all

                                  If you are a Python developer, this can easily be several or tens of GB.

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                                  • F [email protected]

                                    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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                                    ah, this filter by timestamp might be very useful to me, thanks

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                                    • H [email protected]

                                      I might do that just to force myself to organize and move files out of downloads.

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                                      I don't think you'll need to do that, unless you are planning to download files that are over 4Gb long and/or you are using a potato that has less than 1 Gb of ram.

                                      t. I've set my entire ram into a ramdisk, and the performance actually IMPROVED compared to not setting a ramdisk at all.

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                                      • S [email protected]

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

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                                        Looks like a worse looking baobab clone

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                                        • S [email protected]

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

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                                          I use du -hs * | sort -h

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