Blog Entry 12 years, 7 months ago

Inspect your disk usage

Right after every clean installation, the system runs really fast and sound. Then day after day, full of miscellaneous, temp files, old packages, back-ups,... appeared and make your storage exactly like a junk yard. One effective first move in order to re-organize this mess is using disk usage analysis tools.

I'm using Fedora, and love the graphs, so my favourite GUI tool is: Disk Usage Analyzer. Just fire it up, select the location, mount point,... you want to perform inspect. Here is its result:

Disk Usage Analyzer

Just look at some location on the top and confirm that those have normal usage, otherwise you can nuke all useless contained items to recover some precious air.

Forget the X interface, an alternative command for the console is: du

It's really simple to use, just typing something like this:

$ du --max-depth=1 -m /home/you/

Happy cleaning day!

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