[nmglug] hard disk usage

[BrianO'Keefe]

"babbling Baobabs of disk usage" reminds me of Spiro Agnew's "Nattering
Nabobs of Negativity" when he referred to anti Viet Nam war folks.
Anyway, I do have an external drive that I move music, photos and docs
into and that will always get me some space.
How ruthless can I get with var? It's 842MB according to du. Any ideas
about the huge Mozilla directory? du says 639MB. Home is big at 5.7GB
with Mozilla at the top followed by Beagle at over 500MB, Desktop and
Pictures I can trim at 1.3 GB total, ffmpeg is 264MB wit Truetype fonts
being the hog in that directory. Var is 842MB with the cache directory
at 340MB.
If I clean up my desktop and Pix and dump Beagle and figure out the
Mozilla thing and can trim /Var I think I'm there.


Ed Brown wrote:
> BrianO'Keefe wrote:
>> In trying to determine why my HD is down to 2GB remaining I used
>> Kdirstat, Baobab and du.
>> On volume /:
>> Baobab says disk usage is 10.73 GB
>> Kdirstat says 13.2GB used
>> du says 13 GB used
>> Nautilus says 2GB remaining of 14.9GB available
>> I only do updates as they come along and except for some photos and docs
>> created and me constantly winnowing out outdated stuff my disk space
>> just gets eaten up.
>> Maybe I just complaining but hey! It's a slow day
>
> Well, 3 of the 4 are fairly consistent.  (Baobab is just babeling.)  2
> free GB out of 15 is trouble though.
>
> Sometimes when trying to free space, I list packages by size and try
> to remove the biggest and most useless.  You can sometimes buy a gig
> or two without much pain this way.
>
> other possibilities:
> Does your package manager cache packages when you do updates?  (yum
> can do this, though not by default.)
> Try something like 'du -h --max-depth=1' starting in /, to find large
> directories.  If /usr is the culprit, all you can do is remove
> software.  But if /var or /tmp or /home is out of control, get ruthless.
> Disks are cheap - get an external if you can't replace or add internal.
> One more thing: stop whining!  (disclaimer for the serious-minded: I
> am NOT being serious.)
>
> -ed
>
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