And that’s all, I’m happy since I was out of space.
Does Linux have spacesniffer?
No, and I miss it. Space sniffer was so good.
I normally use
rmfor that. Orwipefsif 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 😉
I love Filelight. Whoever came up with it is brilliant.
I’m more of a baobab person myself 😋
Isn’t it the same?
Basically, just using gtk instead of Qt :P
I’ve really enjoyed
ncdu(for those looking for a non-GUI option).
This is why I’ve set up a ramdisk on
~/.cacheand~/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.
I don’t think they meant forcing themselves because their RAM would fill up, but because their stuff would be gone after rebooting if they didn’t move it.
i use https://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdu for this
Also dust
I’m à qdirstat guy : https://github.com/shundhammer/qdirstat
That’s when you know it’s time for a fresh install
Sir, this is not Windows.
I’m still pretty new to Linux so I break stuff pretty often, like recently I was trying to get opencl working with my amd gpu and I ended up causing every video I played to stutter constantly.
And I’ve been trying out new software to control fans or rgb and following guides making me enter commands until I figure out something that works I note it down so when I do a fresh install again I can easily configure it without all the trial and error etc and install only the software I found that I liked
That plus distro hopping
That kinda makes sense at this stage. If you spend time understanding what those commands do, you’d understand how the system works, and most importantly how to not fuck it up. Keep in mind there’s a lot of misinformation and bad practices in guides out there. People who bare know more than you feel confident to share snippets without warning. Ten or twenty years ago much fewer people had experience with Linux and most people confident enough to write were technical people that knew what they were talking about. Destructive misinformation was less.
But yeah when you learn, the need or urge to reinstall disappears. I stopped reinstalling in 2014. Took me 9 years to unfuck my Windows brain and understand enough to not shoot myself in the feet. Main machine hasn’t been reinstalled since then. That’s with replacing multiple main boards, switching AMD > Intel > AMD, changing SSDs, going from single SSD to mdraid, increasing in size over time, etc.
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
The machine that was last installed in 2014 is Ubuntu LTS. It’s been upgraded through all the LTS releases since then. Currently on 22.04 with the free Ubuntu Pro enabled. I use a mix of Ubuntu LTS and Debian stable on other machines. For example my laptop is on Debian 12. Debian has been the most reliable OS and community for over 30 years and I believe it’ll still be around 30 years from now, if we haven’t destroyed ourselves. 😂
Do you delete all your files on a reinstall? Documents, photos, videos, games?
I usually keep important stuff on my server but things like games and stuff I purge with the fresh install and just download the games I’m actively playing, also helps clear up any issues from installing random junk during the months between as I settle on what programs I like
Separate partitions for / and /home, save all your data, configs, etc. but you can still distrohop!
Nah, in a rolling distro it’s normal, they were mostly unused stuff hide in /home, and useless yay pkg.
Personally I’m a huge fan of dust
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.
Is this a Linux version of windirstat?
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!
Cheese it!
@EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted @VonReposti Cheese? That’s a James May job.
😉🧀Lol, I love me some James May saying “cheese”, but I was more referring to the old Futurama episode where Bender goes back to Mars University. One of his signature catchphrases in that episode is “Cheese it!”
@EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted Sorry I did not get this reference. I’m not a Futurama fan. I don’t know why. 🤷♂️
But I know BÄÄM cheese! 😅
side note: wiztree performs better on windows than windirstat, radically faster scans
now I feel dirty talking about windows here…
There was something about wiztree that kept me using windirstat. I don’t think it’s free software.
There’s also QDirStat which is like KDirStat but without KDE dependencies.
I use
du -hs * | sort -hIn Germany “du hs” is considered an insult and I think that’s beautiful.
selber hs °^°
If you need a more interactive method, gdu is awesome. And if you’re using btrfs, btdu gives preliminary results instantly (which get more precise over time).
This tool is amazing https://github.com/KSXGitHub/parallel-disk-usage
Looks like the Gnome Disk Usage Analyzer but for KDE.
That’s a weird way to spell Baobab
To be fair Baobab is a weird way to spell Baobab
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
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 latestfclonesrun was only about a month ago, so it doesn’t make sense to try it yet.Fclones is a great tool, but it’s for finding duplicate files and replacing them with sym-/hard-/reflinks.
I recommend using the --cache option to make subsequent runs extremely quick.
–cache option
I will check this out!
