And that’s all, I’m happy since I was out of space.

  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml
    8·
    1 day ago

    My dad’s Linux setup couldn’t log in. After a bit of investigation, starting the session manually and so on, i got a hunch and indeed; i saw in Baobab that the backup script took the wrong disk, filled up the one with home, making it slow, so the log-in thingie timed out, failing the session.

  • eneff@discuss.tchncs.de
    2·
    2 days ago

    My / is a tmpfs.

    There is no state accumulating that I didn’t explicitly specify, exactly because I don’t want to deal with those kind of chores.

    • Chewy@discuss.tchncs.de
      3·
      2 days ago

      These tools are also useful for finding large files in your home directory. E.g. I’ve found a large amount of Linux ISOs I didn’t need anymore.

  • devfuuu@lemmy.world
    211·
    2 days ago

    The always huge and killing my system space:

    • pacman cache
    • docker bullshit
    • flatpaks
    • journalctl files!
    • MouldyCat@feddit.ukEnglish
      1·
      1 day ago

      In case you don’t already know about it, paccache (part of the pacman-contrib package) will let you easily remove old packages from the pacman cache

      • NeatoBuilds@lemmy.todayEnglish
        2·
        2 days ago

        I’m still pretty new to Linux so I break stuff pretty often, like recently I was trying to get opencl working with my amd gpu and I ended up causing every video I played to stutter constantly.

        And I’ve been trying out new software to control fans or rgb and following guides making me enter commands until I figure out something that works I note it down so when I do a fresh install again I can easily configure it without all the trial and error etc and install only the software I found that I liked

        That plus distro hopping

        • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.ca
          2·
          2 days ago

          That kinda makes sense at this stage. If you spend time understanding what those commands do, you’d understand how the system works, and most importantly how to not fuck it up. Keep in mind there’s a lot of misinformation and bad practices in guides out there. People who bare know more than you feel confident to share snippets without warning. Ten or twenty years ago much fewer people had experience with Linux and most people confident enough to write were technical people that knew what they were talking about. Destructive misinformation was less.

          But yeah when you learn, the need or urge to reinstall disappears. I stopped reinstalling in 2014. Took me 9 years to unfuck my Windows brain and understand enough to not shoot myself in the feet. Main machine hasn’t been reinstalled since then. That’s with replacing multiple main boards, switching AMD > Intel > AMD, changing SSDs, going from single SSD to mdraid, increasing in size over time, etc.

      • NeatoBuilds@lemmy.todayEnglish
        2·
        2 days ago

        I usually keep important stuff on my server but things like games and stuff I purge with the fresh install and just download the games I’m actively playing, also helps clear up any issues from installing random junk during the months between as I settle on what programs I like

    • SolarPunker@slrpnk.netOP
      4·
      2 days ago

      Nah, in a rolling distro it’s normal, they were mostly unused stuff hide in /home, and useless yay pkg.

  • asl@mbin.launay.org
    328·
    2 days ago

    The following NEW packages will be installed: filelight gamin kded5 kio kwayland-data kwayland-integration libdbusmenu-qt5-2 libgamin0 libhfstospell11 libkf5auth-data libkf5authcore5 libkf5codecs-data libkf5codecs5 libkf5completion-data libkf5completion5 libkf5config-bin libkf5config-data libkf5configcore5 libkf5configgui5 libkf5configwidgets-data libkf5configwidgets5 libkf5coreaddons-data libkf5coreaddons5 libkf5crash5 libkf5dbusaddons-bin libkf5dbusaddons-data libkf5dbusaddons5 libkf5doctools5 libkf5globalaccel-bin libkf5globalaccel-data libkf5globalaccel5 libkf5globalaccelprivate5 libkf5guiaddons-bin libkf5guiaddons-data libkf5guiaddons5 libkf5i18n-data libkf5i18n5 libkf5iconthemes-bin libkf5iconthemes-data libkf5iconthemes5 libkf5idletime5 libkf5itemviews-data libkf5itemviews5 libkf5jobwidgets-data libkf5jobwidgets5 libkf5kiocore5 libkf5kiogui5 libkf5kiontlm5 libkf5kiowidgets5 libkf5notifications-data libkf5notifications5 libkf5service-bin libkf5service-data libkf5service5 libkf5solid5 libkf5solid5-data libkf5sonnet5-data libkf5sonnetcore5 libkf5sonnetui5 libkf5textwidgets-data libkf5textwidgets5 libkf5wallet-bin libkf5wallet-data libkf5wallet5 libkf5waylandclient5 libkf5widgetsaddons-data libkf5widgetsaddons5 libkf5windowsystem-data libkf5windowsystem5 libkf5xmlgui-bin libkf5xmlgui-data libkf5xmlgui5 libkwalletbackend5-5 libpolkit-qt5-1-1 libqt5texttospeech5 libqt5waylandclient5 libqt5waylandcompositor5 libvoikko1 qtspeech5-speechd-plugin qtwayland5 sonnet-plugins 0 upgraded, 81 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

    A bit too much to just install one soft. Hard pass.

    • MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml
      2·
      1 day ago

      On gtk desktops it’s something like Baobab. Too sad that the big guys can’t make lightweight and standalone software.

      • Wilmo Bones@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        19 hours ago

        Basically all KDE apps have the same dependency set. So install one and the next ones will only install the app most likely. On KDE itself you’d already have these.

    • priapus@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      39·
      2 days ago

      That’s very normal if you don’t have any KDE apps. If you were using KDE and installed a GNOME app it’d be similar.

    • PushButton@lemmy.world
      6·
      1 day ago

      My little widget to get the weather, Blazing Fast Uber Duper made in Rust, has like 85 total dependencies from like 3 crates that I need…

      My own software is a hard pass for myself…

      That’s great!

      Another thing that is great, since we are talking about disk space: people, check your Rust repositiry, it might be huge.

      I deleted that folder and, in my case, freed 12gb. Not too shabby.

    • moonpiedumplings@programming.devEnglish
      8·
      20 hours ago
      [moonpie@osiris ~]$ du -h $(which filelight)
316K    /usr/bin/filelight

      K = kilobytes.

      [moonpie@osiris ~]$ pacman -Ql filelight | awk '{print $2}' | xargs du | awk '{print $1}' | paste -sd+ | bc
45347740

      45347740 bytes is 43.247 megabytes. That is to say, the entire install of filelight is only 43 megabytes.

      KDE packages have many dependencies, which cause the packages themselves to be extremely tiny. By sharing a ton of code via libraries, they save a lot of space.

  • klu9@lemmy.caEnglish
    26·
    2 days ago

    Personally I’m loving diskonaut. “Graphical” representation but at, ahem, terminal velocity. Image