How To: Disk Full?

[kodiakmax]

I found these How To's on the ubuntu forums. I was going to transcribe them here; However, I decided that was going to be a waste of my time.

Lost free space can be a pain for new users so, I thought I'd post these couple of links to help all the N00B5 out.

Disk Full? -- Check your trash --> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=898573

Disk Space Problems & Solutions --> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1122670

[Fitzcarraldo]

It's also worth noting that you can configure the KDE GUI application KDiskFree to pop up an alarm message when a disk gets critically full.

[pepe999]

I use Conky to see resources of my PC like, hdd usage, memory usage, network usage, cpu usage etc..
I also use Gnome Commander for managing files and data so don't have issues with Trash because GC deletes files straightaway..
Gnome Commander is my first application to install immediately after the every new linux installation and Conky is the second app..

[WarraWarra]

Also have a look at eclean distfiles eclean packages and autoclean in make.conf + there should be some info we posted in the forums about cleaning up / housekeeping the linux install possibly 1 or more years ago.

Will see if I can find the links / topics and post them again.

http://gentoo.linuxhowtos.org/faq/cleandistfiles.htm

Found this 10sept 2007 "dep --springclean" but can not remember what package installed this we used to use "dep -a world"
or "dep -w" , damn my memory half a lifetime ago.

http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/HOWTO_Light ... stallation
http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/HOWTO_Light ... sary_files

http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Gentoo_maintenance

http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Build_Yo ... some_files
http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Build_Yo ... _cleanings

Some of this is for livecd but like the kernels only latest one is needed + if oyu have a PKGDIR then all needed files is there to quickly recover and this can be stored on external disk or backup to external and only used when needed ie: full pkgdir with what is and then delete and if needed mount and use + add new files since last delete of pkgdir.

So many useful stuff was lost when gentoo wiki nuked.

[WarraWarra]

Kodiak also check the equo make.conf in /var/lib/entropy...../4/ and remove the unneeded languages and edit this to point to say a external hd that has packages distfiles and other info same as you would mod portage /etc/make.conf .
Portage uses /etc/make.conf equo uses this /var/lib and can cut down on a lot of unneeded documents languages and other stuff that a new / general user might want or need.
You could also ln -s the 2 make.conf but check on equo update as it might or wants to replace equo's make.conf and can loose settings / tweaks.

Most of the space saver stuff is in the tiny gentoo / liveusb / livecd or ulibc embedded gentoo guides and can cause a lot of damage as well , but you know how it works so should be fine. There is a few old html's saved on ibiblio server just save to desktop and then open with firefox etc and enjoy .

[kodiakmax]

As long as we're talking about space saving stuff. Maybe someone knows why I'm getting different usage percentages depending on how it's checked.

"kdesu kdirstat" = 10.67GB used at /
"su df -h" = 13G used at /
conky = 12.4G used at /
"kdesu kdiskfree" = 67.9% full at /

here is a screenshot. any ideas why I get different numbers, what is the true disk usage, and is there a graphical utility like kdirstat that reports the correct disk usage?

[sjieke]

Looking at your screenshot, I noticed that on some places there is 'GiB' and on others 'GB'
Somewhere in the back of my head, I remember a teacher at the university that told us there is a small difference between to two.
One is calculated as followed:
1 GiB = 1024 MiB = 1024 * 1024 KiB = ...
And the other is calculated as followed:
1 GB = 1000 MB = 1000 * 1000 KB = ...

Starting from this you can find some more information on this. So the meaning on 'Megabyte, Gigabyte,...' can differ somewhat. Following defenition can be used:
1 MB = 1 000 000 bytes
1 MB = 1000 * 1024 bytes
1 MB = 1024 * 1024 bytes

Maybe this can explain the differences in different applications...

[kodiakmax]

Huh, now that you mention that I do remember hearing something like that somewhere a long time ago thanks for the reminder. I am way to lazy right now to work out the math, I'll get around to it soon enough though. thanks for the tip, that's probably what it is.

[wolfden]

I like to use the combination shift + del on files, this bypasses the trash can, use with caution tho