<div dir="auto">Brian. Good. Look at 'du' and pipe it to sort or use the appropriate argument from du itself. Just a way to start. I've used 'du' and gotten a list of files by size, but it has been a while. Ted P.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jul 29, 2019, 6:27 PM Brian O'Keefe <<a href="mailto:okeefe@cybermesa.com">okeefe@cybermesa.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p>Howdy all,</p>
<p>I bought a on-sale laptop. It's an: ASUS VivoBook 15.6" FHD
Laptop, Quad-Core Ryzen 5 2500U Processor (up to 3.6 GHz) with
Radeon Vega 8 Graphics, 8 GB DDR4, 256 GB M.2 SSD, 802.11ac Wi-Fi
- F505ZA-DH51. It's a race car for me at least. I downloaded Ubunu
19.04 and made a bootable USB drive and installed. Boy is it good
looking! I can't wait to get all of my data migrated but I am. As
you see the SSD is not so large as the 1TB I have on my old ACER.
I thought that I was using about 45% disk space and was not, of
course, worried because the drive is so large capacity. I never
finished migrating all of my data from my previous and hosed
500GBSSD that Mark helped, or actually did, save so I have some
scattered data on the ACER and on the 500SSD. In prepping to start
moving stuff around I used the GUI Disk Analyzer and very much to
my surprise I found files of up to 49GB!! I have 5 or 6 WINE
programs I run and that shows up as a 39GB folder. Now that makes
no sense at all, as is the case with several other folders. I have
a folder for my activism stuff and that's 29GB which is
outlandishly wrong. So the Disk analyzer is wrong or somehow these
folders have been growing on their own, bloating like a
president's ego. My Q is, what console tool would give me the disk
usage in a tree-like format (I know not like a GUI but a list from
highest to lowest size of folders). Is this possible?</p>
<p>It appears that if the GUI Disk Analyzer is correct then I can
lose a few items, like the wine programs, VMs and other
unnecessaries and have plenty of space on the new drive. I had
planned to use the 1TB drive as a storage device for my 10,000+
photos, etc. This would work but I don't trust the GUI and don't
want to start some weird event and lose data nor do I want to
transfer mostly useless data that is actually a couple Gigs and
not the tens of GB I am seeing.</p>
<p>I'll check out the forums for a console command but i thought I'd
go to the best first.</p>
<p>Cheers</p>
<p>Brian<br>
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