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Dust is a rewrite of du (in rust obviously) that visualizes your directory tree and what percentage each file takes up. But it only prints as many files fit in your terminal height, so you see only the largest files. It's been a better experience that du, which isn't always easy to navigate to find big files (or atleast I'm not good at it.)

Anyway, found a log file at .local/state/nvim/log that was 70gb. I deleted it. Hope it doesn't bite me. Been pushing around 95% of disk space for a while so this was a huge win 👍

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

MINI GUIDE TO FREEING UP DISK SPACE (by a datahoarder idiot who runs on 5 gigs free space on 4 TB)

You will find more trash with the combination of 4 tools. Czkawka (duplicates and big files), Dupeguru (logs), VideoDuplicateFinder by 0x90d, and tune2fs.

VDF finds duplicates by multiple frames of a video, and with reversing frames, and you can set similarity % rate and duration of videos. It is the best tool of its kind with nothing to match it, and uses ffmpeg as backend.

There is a certain amount of disk space reserved on partitions for root or privileged processes, but users who create /home partition separately do not need this reserved space there. 5% space is reserved by default, no matter if your disk is 1 TB, 2 TB or 4 TB. To change this, use command sudo tune2fs -m N (where N is % you want to reserve, can be put to 0% for /home, but NEVER touch root, swap or others, use GParted to check which is which partition).

Regular junk cleaning on Linux can be done with BleachBit. Wipe free disk space once in 3-6 months atleast.

On Windows, use PrivaZer instead of BleachBit.

Since all of these are GUI tools (except tune2fs which requires no commandline hackerman knowledge), this guide is targeted towards tech literacy level of users who can atleast replace crack EXEs in pirated games on Windows.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What about the video similarity finding tool built into Czkawka? Is it not as good as VDF?

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago

No, not even a contest. Nothing compares to VDF.