And that's all, I'm happy since I was out of space.
Looks like a worse looking baobab clone
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I love Filelight. Whoever came up with it is brilliant.
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
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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Does Linux have spacesniffer?
No, and I miss it. Space sniffer was so good.
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.
I might do that just to force myself to organize and move files out of downloads.
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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That's when you know it's time for a fresh install
Nah, in a rolling distro it's normal, they were mostly unused stuff hide in /home, and useless yay pkg.
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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.
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Is this a Linux version of windirstat?
There's also QDirStat which is like KDirStat but without KDE dependencies.
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.
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's a 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
Y'all need to quit it with all this Truman Show nonsense
Oh shit, he's onto us!
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I freed my entire disk by removing the French language pack
I recommend it too. It's simple as doing:
sudo rm -rf /
Where "-rf" obviously stands for "remove french".
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For the curious, rm -fr /
I freed 50gb by running 'docker system prune'...
Oh, that reminds me,...
I once freed 28 GB using find ~/Downloads/ -mtime +30 -delete
paccache -r got me about the same
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.
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.
ah, this filter by timestamp might be very useful to me, thanks
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