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    FAQ: Free Disk Space

    In the konsole

    df
    NAME
    df - report file system disk space usage

    SYNOPSIS
    df [OPTION]... [FILE]...

    DESCRIPTION
    This manual page documents the GNU version of df. df displays the
    amount of disk space available on the file system containing each file
    name argument. If no file name is given, the space available on all
    currently mounted file systems is shown.
    Examples:
    Code:
    :~$ df
    or
    Code:
    :~$ df -h -T
    -h, --human-readable
    print sizes in human readable format (e.g., 1K 234M 2G)

    -T, --print-type
    print file system type
    du
    NAME
    du - estimate file space usage

    SYNOPSIS
    du [OPTION]... [FILE]...
    du [OPTION]... --files0-from=F

    DESCRIPTION
    Summarize disk usage of each FILE, recursively for directories.
    Examples:
    Code:
    :~$ du
    or
    Code:
    :~$ du -h
    -h, --human-readable
    print sizes in human readable format (e.g., 1K 234M 2G)

    Few programs with gui

    Filelight
    It is like a pie-chart, but the segments nest, allowing you to see not only which directories take up all your space, but which directories and files inside those directories are the real culprits.
    xdiskusage
    xdiskusage is a user-friendly program to show you what is using up
    all your disk space. It is based on the design of the "xdu" program
    written by Phillip C. Dykstra. Changes have been made so it runs "du"
    for you, and can display the free space left on the disk, and produce
    a PostScript version of the display.
    KDirStat
    KDirStat (KDE Directory Statistics) is a small utility program that sums up
    disk usage for direcory trees, very much like the Unix 'du' command. It
    displays the disk space used up by a directory tree, both numerically and
    graphically.
    kdf
    KDiskFree displays the available file devices (hard drive partitions, floppy and CD drives, etc.) along with information on their capacity, free space, type and mount point. It also allows you to mount and unmount drives and view them in a file manager.

    Links

    DISK USAGE MONITOR
    http://www.penguin.ch/dokuwiki/doku....ries:diskusage

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    Re: FAQ: Free Disk Space

    This has been a popular subject lately. Thanks.

    eriefisher
    ~$sudo make me a sandwich

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      #3
      Re: FAQ: Free Disk Space

      Yes, thanks! About the only thing I really like in the Ubuntu utilities is that system resource monitor, in the filesystem view. Very quick and very clear to see where you are with partition usage, even when you have a "stack" of them. I didn't know about KDF until someone mentioned it the other day. It's not bad.

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        #4
        Re: FAQ: Free Disk Space

        Nice FAQ. Thanks for the effort.

        I'd just like to add that Konqueror has a built-in File Size View in the View menu -> View Mode.

        My favorite of these utilities would be Filelight, followed by df when I need a quick percentage. In Filelight, I can see how much space is being used per partition and where they are being used.
        Jucato&#39;s Data Core

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          Re: FAQ: Free Disk Space



          Thank you ! It is just copy&paste from man pages and packages description field.
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            Re: FAQ: Free Disk Space

            > agedu - a Unix utility for tracking down wasted disk space

            correlate disk usage with last-access times to identify large and disused data

            Most Unix file systems, in their default mode, helpfully record when a file was last accessed.
            Not just when it was written or modified, but when it was even read. So if you generated
            a large amount of data years ago, forgot to clean it up, and have never used it since,
            then it ought in principle to be possible to use those last-access time stamps to tell
            the difference between that and a large amount of data you're still using regularly.

            agedu is a program which does this. It does basically the same sort of disk scan as du,
            but it also records the last-access times of everything it scans. Then it builds
            an index that lets it efficiently generate reports giving a summary of the results
            for each subdirectory, and then it produces those reports on demand.
            [img width=400 height=288]http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/agedu/screenshot.png[/img]

            The picture is from the > agedu



            Links:

            > Linux Magazine - How Old is that Data on the Hard Drive?
            > Agedu - Combing Files with Agedu
            > Cool Linux utility alert: agedu


            The agedu from the PPA /1/ repositories > Show PPAs matching: agedu

            Update:
            The Agedu is in the official repositories.



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