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Ribs Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 16 Nov 2002 Posts: 133 Location: UK
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Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2003 8:34 pm Post subject: Tool to easily view disk space. |
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Hi,
Just found out today that I'm practially out of disk space (The joys of my new broadband connection!). If there any graphical applications which would give me a good overview of where all my space is going?
I currently use Gnome, and nautilus isn't really up to the task. I discovered the "du -hs" command, but that will take a while to get a good overview on my system.
Thanks,
-Ribs. |
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idl Retired Dev
Joined: 24 Dec 2002 Posts: 1728 Location: Nottingham, UK
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Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2003 9:04 pm Post subject: |
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Code: | gnome-system-monitor |
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shm Advocate
Joined: 09 Dec 2002 Posts: 2380 Location: Atlanta, Universe
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Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2003 9:10 pm Post subject: |
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filelight (http://www.methylblue.com/filelight/ also in portage) is an EXTREMELY good tool for this-- I reclaimed about ten GB of misc space after running it. _________________ what up |
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tobechar n00b
Joined: 30 Oct 2003 Posts: 61 Location: Canada
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Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2003 9:33 pm Post subject: |
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If you are using KDE, click on Konsole, GNOME, use Terminal.
Type the following command:
This will display your used and free space. _________________ Computin' Since '89 |
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shm Advocate
Joined: 09 Dec 2002 Posts: 2380 Location: Atlanta, Universe
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Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2003 9:45 pm Post subject: |
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tobechar wrote: | If you are using KDE, click on Konsole, GNOME, use Terminal.
Type the following command:
This will display your used and free space. |
Yes, but that really isn't a terribly good way to find hidden space. _________________ what up |
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zojas Veteran
Joined: 22 Apr 2002 Posts: 1138 Location: Phoenix, AZ
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Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2003 10:33 pm Post subject: |
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don't use df -h, just do this:
then you see the biggest stuff at the bottom. _________________ http://www.desertsol.com/~kevin/ppc |
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sawanv Apprentice
Joined: 05 Dec 2002 Posts: 238
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Posted: Sun Nov 09, 2003 4:07 pm Post subject: |
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If you use KDE, Kdiskfree is useful for this.... _________________ Eir kahen "chalo ghar jayen",
Bir kahen "chalo ghar jayen",
Phatte kahen "chalo ghar jayen",
Cartman kahen....."Screw you guys, I am going home !!! " |
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splice n00b
Joined: 06 Dec 2002 Posts: 13
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Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2003 8:48 pm Post subject: |
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Or, for a much better way than the old du |sort -n trick (I use 'du -ak |sort -n' in those cases):
find /somefilesys -follow -mount -type f -print0 | xargs -0 ls -l | sort -r -n -k 5,5 | head -10
Of course, replace /somefilesys with the root from which you want to search, and head -10 with head -x, where x is the number of files you want displayed. This will give you the x (or in the example case, 10) biggest files found under the root provided. Credits go to Kyle Douglass, who provided the tip in the October Shell Corner (Miscellaneous Unix Tips IV) at unixreview.com. |
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LMCBoy Apprentice
Joined: 30 Aug 2002 Posts: 191 Location: San Ramon, CA
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Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2003 3:05 am Post subject: |
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Konqueror in 3.2 has a plugin called "FSView" which shows a really cool graphical representation of your disk usage. It tiles the konqueror window with rectangles, each representing a directory, and each size is proportional to the directory's dusk usage. It's fully interactive, you can click on any rectangle to enter that directory to see more details about its subdirs. It's a bit slow, but a LOT faster than KDiskFree in my experience. Here's a screenie:
clicky _________________ LMCBoy |
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sawanv Apprentice
Joined: 05 Dec 2002 Posts: 238
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Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2003 3:44 am Post subject: |
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If you simply want to view total disk summary then the best way is
df -h
As noted above. Very useful for consoles, quick looks, ssh, etc.
That fsview stuff looks like one confusing mother!!!!
Sawan _________________ Eir kahen "chalo ghar jayen",
Bir kahen "chalo ghar jayen",
Phatte kahen "chalo ghar jayen",
Cartman kahen....."Screw you guys, I am going home !!! " |
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