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I freed 30GB using Filelight (slrpnk.net)

submitted 2 months ago by SolarPunker@slrpnk.net to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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And that's all, I'm happy since I was out of space.

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[–] uridl@feddit.org 5 points 2 months ago

Looks like a worse looking baobab clone

[–] bhamlin@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I normally use rm for that. Or wipefs if I'm feeling particularly spicy.

[–] Allero@lemmy.today 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] jbrains@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Excellent! I missed DaisyDisk. It looks great!

[–] Xanza@lemm.ee 4 points 2 months ago

GDU: http://i.xno.dev/u/WWyrND.png

[–] noodles@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months ago

I use gdu personally

[–] muhyb@programming.dev 4 points 2 months ago

gdu gang

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 3 points 2 months ago

Those are rookie numbers.

[–] Chivera@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Does Linux have spacesniffer?

[–] vort3@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago

No, and I miss it. Space sniffer was so good.

[–] eneff@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

My / is a tmpfs.

There is no state accumulating that I didn't explicitly specify, exactly because I don't want to deal with those kind of chores.

[–] Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

These tools are also useful for finding large files in your home directory. E.g. I've found a large amount of Linux ISOs I didn't need anymore.

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[–] sic_semper_tyrannis@lemmy.today 2 points 2 months ago

I like Bleachbit but I'll check this out

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