FAQ: Free Disk Space - Regenerated

[Rog132]

Regenerated > Topic: Lost Information, old topic=3086353.0


Few ways to follow the disk usage.


KONSOLE

df Package: coreutils, man 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 avail‐
able on all currently mounted file systems is shown...

Examples:

df

Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 10080488 4114732 5453688 44% /
none 503372 736 502636 1% /dev
none 512612 0 512612 0% /dev/shm
none 512612 96 512516 1% /var/run
none 512612 0 512612 0% /var/lock
/dev/sda2 10080520 2034532 7533920 22% /home
/dev/sda5 109092544 43652592 59898332 43% /media/sda5
/dev/sda6 109092544 57457220 46093704 56% /media/sda6
/dev/sdb3 110072160 86559696 17921044 83% /media/sdb3
/dev/sdb4 110064128 94738824 9734284 91% /media/sdb4

df -h -T

Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 ext4 9.7G 4.0G 5.3G 44% /
none devtmpfs 492M 736K 491M 1% /dev
none tmpfs 501M 0 501M 0% /dev/shm
none tmpfs 501M 96K 501M 1% /var/run
none tmpfs 501M 0 501M 0% /var/lock
/dev/sda2 ext4 9.7G 2.0G 7.2G 22% /home
/dev/sda5 ext4 105G 42G 58G 43% /media/sda5
/dev/sda6 ext4 105G 55G 44G 56% /media/sda6
/dev/sdb3 ext4 105G 83G 18G 83% /media/sdb3
/dev/sdb4 ext4 105G 91G 9.3G 91% /media/sdb4

-h, --human-readable
print sizes in human readable format (e.g., 1K 234M 2G)


-T, --print-type
print file system type

du Package: coreutils, man 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.

di Package: di, man di:

Name
di - disk information

Synopsis
di [-AaghHklLmnPtZ] [-b block-size] [-d display-size] [-f format] [-I include-fstyp-list] [-s
sort-type] [-w block-width] [-W inode-width] [-x exclude-fstyp-list] [-X debug-level] [-z
zone-name] [file [...]]

Description
di Displays usage information on mounted filesystems. Block values are reported in a human read‐
able format. If the user or group has a disk quota, the values reported are adjusted according
the quotas that apply to the user...

Examples:

di

Filesystem Mount Size Used Avail %Used fs Type
/dev/sda1 / 9.6G 3.9G 5.2G 46% ext4
/dev/sda2 /home 9.6G 1.9G 7.2G 25% ext4
/dev/sda5 /media/sda5 104.0G 41.6G 57.1G 45% ext4
/dev/sda6 /media/sda6 104.0G 54.8G 44.0G 58% ext4
/dev/sdb3 /media/sdb3 105.0G 82.5G 17.1G 84% ext4
/dev/sdb4 /media/sdb4 105.0G 90.3G 9.3G 91% ext4

agedu Package: agedu, man agedu

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

SYNOPSIS
agedu [ options ] action [action...]

DESCRIPTION
agedu scans a directory tree and produces reports about how much disk space is used in each direc‐
tory and subdirectory, and also how that usage of disk space corresponds to files with last-access
times a long time ago.

In other words, agedu is a tool you might use to help you free up disk space. It lets you see
which directories are taking up the most space, as du does; but unlike du, it also distinguishes
between large collections of data which are still in use and ones which have not been accessed in
months or years...

Examples

agedu -s /media/sda3/

agedu: /media/sda3/lost+found: opendir: Permission denied
Built pathname index, 1966339 entries, 180954011 bytes of index
Faking directory atimes
Building index
Final index file size = 491245928 bytes

agedu -w

Using Linux /proc/net magic authentication
URL: http://localhost:58794/

Launching a browser with the URL:

firefox [url]http://127.0.0.1:58794/[/url]

or right click - open link







Links:
> Agedu home
> How Old is that Data on the Hard Drive?
> Agedu - Combing Files with Agedu
> Cool Linux utility alert: agedu
> Topic: FIXED: Disk usage with 2.6.38 kernel

[Rog132]

Re: FAQ: Free Disk Space

GUI


Filelight Package: filelight

Description: show where your diskspace is being used
Filelight allows you to understand your disk usage by graphically
representing your filesystem as a set of concentric, segmented rings.
.
It is like a pie-chart, but the segments nest, allowing you to see both
which directories take up all your space, and which directories
and files inside those directories are the real culprits.
Homepage: http://utils.kde.org/

Dolphin > Open (directory) With > Filelight




KDiskFree Package: kdf

Description: disk information utility
KDiskFree displays information about hard disks and other storage devices,
including the amount of free space available. It can also mount and unmount
storage devices and view them in the file manager.
.
KwikDisk is an icon for the system tray that provides convenient access to
the features of KDiskFree.
.
This package is part of the KDE utilities module.
Homepage: http://utils.kde.org/

K > Applications > System > View Disk Usage




FSV - File Size View Packages: konqueror + konq-plugins

Description: advanced file manager, web browser and document viewer
Konqueror is the KDE web browser and advanced file manager.
.
Konqueror is a standards-compliant web browser, supporting HTML 4.01, Java,
JavaScript, CSS3, and Netscape plugins such as Flash.
.
It supports advanced file management on local UNIX filesystems, with flexible
views, network transparency, and embedded file viewing.
.
It is the canvas for many KDE technologies, from remote file access via KIO to
component embedding via the KParts object interface, making it one of the most
customizable applications available.
.
This package is part of the KDE base applications module.
Homepage: http://www.kde.org/

Description: plugins for Konqueror, the KDE file/web/document browser
This package contains a variety of useful plugins for Konqueror, the
file manager, web browser and document viewer for KDE. Many of these
plugins will appear in Konqueror's Tools menu.
.
.
File management plugins:
- Image Gallery: an easy way to generate a HTML image gallery
- File Size View (kpart): a proportional view of directories and files
based on file size
- Transform Image (service menu): rotate and flip images
- Convert To (service menu): convert and image to another format
- Directory Filter (dolphin): filter directory views
.
These plugins are not part of the official KDE Software Compilation, they
are a KDE Extragear software and may get out of sync with Konqueror.
Enhances: konqueror

Konqueror > View > View Mode > File Size View
also
Konqueror > View > View Mode > Radial Map (pie chart)




Xdiskusage Package: xdiskusage

Description: Displays a graphic of your disk usage with du
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.
Homepage: http://xdiskusage.sourceforge.net/

Examples:

xdiskusage /media/sda3/

[Rog132]

Re: FAQ: Free Disk Space

Notifiers and plasmoids and whatever


The KDE disk space warning system. Package: freespacenotifier.

Description: free space notification module for KDE
This module notifies the user when /home or one of the other directories
which you can configure it to monitor are running out of space.
.
More technically, this package provides a module for kded, the KDE Daemon.
.
This package is part of the KDE base workspace module.
Homepage: http://www.kde.org/

By Sune Vuorela > update-notifier-kde, freespacenotifier: where's the UI?:

The configuration window is available only when freespacenotifier notifies you about lack of free space. It is available thru the notification.

The defaults are (with the Kubuntu 11.04):

cat /usr/share/kde4/config.kcfg/freespacenotifier.kcfg

<label>Minimum free space before user starts being notified.</label>
<default>200</default>

(200 MiB)

To trigger the notification make a ~/.kde/share/config/freespacenotifierrc with the minimum space information (here, at this 9G):

[General]
minimumSpace=9000

and there is the warning and the configuration screen.






As part of the KDE is the "Hard Disk Status" plasma widget. It is showing the partition labels, free space and the disk temperature.




The > KDE-Look.org plasmoid section do have plasma widgets to show the free disk space. One of them is the > Mountoid.

Description:
This plasmoid provides a way to mount/unmount devices from fstab (e.g. network shares), show free space and open mount point location in a file manager. It is fully configurable and supports fusefs and sshfs (don't forget to install a SSH_ASKPASS agent).

[OneLine]

KDirStat

The KDirStat (KDE Directory Statistics) is available from the Precise repositories. The kdirstat is a transitional dummy package pointing to the k4dirstat.

http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?ke...ll&section=all

Description: graphical disk usage display with cleanup facilities

K4DirStat (KDE 4 Directory Statistics) is a small utility program that sums
up disk usage for directory trees, very much like the Unix 'du' command.
It displays the disk space used up by a directory tree, both numerically
and graphically. It is network transparent (i.e., you can use it to sum
up FTP servers), and comes with predefined and user configurable cleanup
actions. You can directly open a directory branch in Konqueror or the
shell of your choice, compress it to a .tar.bz2 archive, or define your
own cleanup actions.

Homepage: http://bitbucket.org/jeromerobert/k4dirstat

[OneLine]

From the Gnome/GTK side

The Baobab /1, 2, 3/ is a disk usage analyzer from the Gnome side. It's dependencies are light:

$ apt-cache show baobab

Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.5), libcairo2 (>= 1.2.4), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.31.18), libgtk-3-0 (>= 3.5.9),
libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0), dconf-gsettings-backend | gsettings-backend
Suggests: yelp
Breaks: gnome-utils (<< 2.30.0-2)

Description GNOME disk usage analyzer
Disk Usage Analyzer is a graphical, menu-driven application to analyse
disk usage in a GNOME environment. It can easily scan either the whole
filesystem tree, or a specific user-requested directory branch (local or
remote).

It also auto-detects in real-time any changes made to your home
directory as far as any mounted/unmounted device. Disk Usage Analyzer
also provides a full graphical treemap window for each selected folder.
Homepage: http://live.gnome.org/GnomeUtils

Links

1. http://www.kubuntuforums.net/showthr...l=1#post310215
2. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Baobab
3. http://www.marzocca.net/linux/baobab/

[dequire]

Simple down and dirty disk space can also be found in KInfocenter: In the left-hand Information Modules Panel select Device Information > Device Viewer > Hard Disk Drive.




Links

1. http://userbase.kde.org/KInfoCenter

[Buddlespit]

Discus

pat@Pats-Main:~$ discus
Mount           Total         Used         Avail      Prcnt      Graph
/              219.52 GB      6.78 GB    212.75 GB     3.1%   [----------]
+/fs/cgroup         4 KB         0 KB         4 KB     0.0%   [----------]
+onnections         0 KB         0 KB         0 KB     0.0%   [----------]
+rnel/debug         0 KB         0 KB         0 KB     0.0%   [----------]
+l/security         0 KB         0 KB         0 KB     0.0%   [----------]
/run            795.6 MB       916 KB     794.7 MB     0.1%   [----------]
/run/lock         5.0 MB         0 KB       5.0 MB     0.0%   [----------]
/run/shm         3.88 GB        84 KB      3.88 GB     0.0%   [----------]
/run/user       100.0 MB        12 KB     100.0 MB     0.0%   [----------]
/home          916.77 GB     58.82 GB    857.94 GB     6.4%   [*---------]
/boot/efi       196.9 MB       479 KB     196.4 MB     0.2%   [----------]
+infmt_misc         0 KB         0 KB         0 KB     0.0%   [----------]
+dia/Shares      1.79 TB    646.28 GB      1.16 TB    35.2%   [****------]
+edia/Homes      1.79 TB    646.28 GB      1.16 TB    35.2%   [****------]
+/36DA-367C      7.63 GB     543.8 MB      7.10 GB     7.0%   [*---------]
pat@Pats-Main:~$