And that's all, I'm happy since I was out of space.
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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I normally use rm for that. Or wipefs if I'm feeling particularly spicy.
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.
Wooosh 😉
My dad's Linux setup couldn't log in. After a bit of investigation, starting the session manually and so on, i got a hunch and indeed; i saw in Baobab that the backup script took the wrong disk, filled up the one with home, making it slow, so the log-in thingie timed out, failing the session.
I like Bleachbit but I'll check this out
Excellent! I missed DaisyDisk. It looks great!
Personally I'm loving diskonaut. "Graphical" representation but at, ahem, terminal velocity.
Linky pls
https://github.com/imsnif/diskonaut
No package for my distro, I "installed" an AppImage with AM (which is also how I discovered it)
tyvm
Jesus, that rustup folder is HUGE
One of the things I dislike about Rust is the massive amount of disk space and time it takes to do a download, compile, test run.
2GB of dependencies and build files for a 200K binary is a bit much.
I use dua, but this looks neat too.
this looks exactly like gnome disk usage analyzer
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