Low on disk space on Home directory

[finny388]

I have an asus eeepc with one 4GB and one 16GB drive

Kubuntu 9.10 is on the 4GB drive
It is also my Home mount but I don't store any files there. I just have links to folders on my 16GB drive.

I am down to 5% free space. I don't know how to approach this.

In Windows I'd go after the temp files, uninstall unnecessary pgms, etc.

How do I figure out what is taking up so much room or is Kubuntu that big?

I have GDMap but I don't know how to get it to show me the 4GB drive.

I also don't know how to see which programs are space hogs. (e.g is Amarok big? I never use it)

any help appreciated thanks

[stychokiller]

Re: Low on disk space on Home directory

The following PERL script might be of some assistance (I call it diskUsage.pl):

#! /usr/bin/perl

#=-
#=- Print total bytes used by files beneath the specified directory.

#=- Only unique inode numbers are counted, so that multiple hard links
#=- to the same file only count once toward the total file size for the
#=- dir.
#=-

#=- use strict;
use warnings;

my $verbose = 0;

# open a pipe to a find command to locate files starting in the specified
# directory and print a simply-formatted string for each...
my $find_targets = join ' ', @ARGV;

open my $found_list, '-|', qq{find $find_targets -type f -printf "%s\tinode: %i\tlink count: %n\t%p\n"} or die "Can't open find command";

# process our simple output, keeping track of inode numbers and file

sizes... my %h;
while( my $output_line = <$found_list> ) {
my ($size, $inode) = $output_line =~ m/^(\d+)\s+(inode: \d+)/;
$h{$inode} = $size;
print $output_line if $verbose;

}

# calculate and display total...
my @ordered = sort values %h;
my $total = 0;
map { $total += $_ } @ordered;
print "-" x 25 . "\nTOTAL SIZE (UNIQUE FILES): " . $total . "\n";

################################################## ########################

[vinnywright]

Re: Low on disk space on Home directory

sudo apt-get kdirstat

kdirstat will show you what's what with disk usage in a graficall maner

VINNY

[Rog131]

Re: Low on disk space on Home directory

There are lot of tools to examine the disk usage > FAQ: Free Disk Space


I have find the Filelight handy.

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[toad]

Re: Low on disk space on Home directory

sudo apt-get clean and sudo apt-get autoclean might already make a difference

[dibl]

Re: Low on disk space on Home directory

To learn which directory is holding an unusual amount (number or size) of files, use

du -h --max-depth=1 | sort -n

first at the "/", or root directory, and then change to whichever directory appears to have an unusually large size, and use it again to see which sub-directory is unusually large.

Another method is to produce a text file of all your files and their sizes, and then review it to see where the problem is:

du / | sort -n > du.txt

[Qqmike]

Re: Low on disk space on Home directory

for a checklist, use of du, etc:

Privacy Cleanup 101
http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde....msg115011#new
=> See Reply#7
Disk/Partition Full! Warning! What to do about it: a decision tree
Checking your space: ls, df, du; Konsole, configure history (# lines to show)

[skunk]

Re: Low on disk space on Home directory

Use konqueror and switch to File Size view

[verndog]

Re: Low on disk space on Home directory

The following PERL script might be of some assistance (I call it diskUsage.pl):

#! /usr/bin/perl

#=-
#=- Print total bytes used by files beneath the specified directory.

#=- Only unique inode numbers are counted, so that multiple hard links
#=- to the same file only count once toward the total file size for the
#=- dir.
#=-

#=- use strict;
use warnings;

my $verbose = 0;

# open a pipe to a find command to locate files starting in the specified
# directory and print a simply-formatted string for each...
my $find_targets = join ' ', @ARGV;

open my $found_list, '-|', qq{find $find_targets -type f -printf "%s\tinode: %i\tlink count: %n\t%p\n"} or die "Can't open find command";

# process our simple output, keeping track of inode numbers and file

sizes... my %h;
while( my $output_line = <$found_list> ) {
my ($size, $inode) = $output_line =~ m/^(\d+)\s+(inode: \d+)/;
$h{$inode} = $size;
print $output_line if $verbose;

}

# calculate and display total...
my @ordered = sort values %h;
my $total = 0;
map { $total += $_ } @ordered;
print "-" x 25 . "\nTOTAL SIZE (UNIQUE FILES): " . $total . "\n";

################################################## ########################

I haven't used perl in ages. Here's the ouput of your script. Apparently doesn't like the "sizes" function:

$ ./p-script
Unquoted string "sizes" may clash with future reserved word at ./p-script line 24.
Useless use of range (or flop) in void context at ./p-script line 24.
Argument "sizes" isn't numeric in range (or flip) at ./p-script line 24.
Use of uninitialized value within %h in range (or flip) at ./p-script line 24.
-------------------------
TOTAL SIZE (UNIQUE FILES): 28313