[opensuse] home partition is full
My home partition is almost full althow the files I created are not so big. My guess is that applications have created their own files. How can I delete these files without affecting my system? -- Cristea Bogdan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Saturday 25 August 2007 23:57, Cristea Bogdan wrote:
My home partition is almost full althow the files I created are not so big. My guess is that applications have created their own files. How can I delete these files without affecting my system? -- Cristea Bogdan
I hought that you could delete most of what is in the /home partition and it wouldn't affect your system. If you have apps writing data there, you might try #du |less as each user to see who is hogging the disk. It shows the byte count for each directory. (Or as su, du /home/<username> |less) The |less, of course, shows the output a page at a time with the ability to page backward. ("man" is your friend) du is a simple tool that can spot problems quickly. Fred -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Saturday 25 August 2007 11:57:13 pm Cristea Bogdan wrote:
My home partition is almost full althow the files I created are not so big. My guess is that applications have created their own files. How can I delete these files without affecting my system? -- Cristea Bogdan
Run: du ./ | sort -frn > sorted-disk-usage and see who is big disk user. The files starting with . are 'hidden' user settings that you don't want to delete, but for instance: ~/.kde directory contains not only settings, but also KMail has all your mail in one of subdirectories. That you don't want to delete too. -- Regards, Rajko. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Thank you for the tip. I have found that .beagle directory was occupying my partition (almost 8 GB). On Sunday 26 August 2007 09:08, Rajko M. wrote:
On Saturday 25 August 2007 11:57:13 pm Cristea Bogdan wrote:
My home partition is almost full althow the files I created are not so big. My guess is that applications have created their own files. How can I delete these files without affecting my system? -- Cristea Bogdan
Run: du ./ | sort -frn > sorted-disk-usage and see who is big disk user.
The files starting with . are 'hidden' user settings that you don't want to delete, but for instance: ~/.kde directory contains not only settings, but also KMail has all your mail in one of subdirectories. That you don't want to delete too.
-- Regards, Rajko.
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Hi, On 8/26/07, Cristea Bogdan <cristeab@gmail.com> wrote:
Thank you for the tip. I have found that .beagle directory was occupying my partition (almost 8 GB).
Within your ~/.beagle directory, what is the size breakdown? If the majority of the size is in ~/.beagle/Log, you've likely hit a bug. Thanks, Joe -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Hi I have already removed that directory without looking how the size was distributed. What stroked me was a large number of directories with ordered names like aa, ab etc. regards Bogdan On Sunday 26 August 2007 16:39, you wrote:
Hi,
On 8/26/07, Cristea Bogdan <cristeab@gmail.com> wrote:
Thank you for the tip. I have found that .beagle directory was occupying my partition (almost 8 GB).
Within your ~/.beagle directory, what is the size breakdown? If the majority of the size is in ~/.beagle/Log, you've likely hit a bug.
Thanks, Joe
-- Cristea Bogdan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sunday 26 August 2007 06:43, Cristea Bogdan wrote:
Hi ... What stroked me was a large number of directories with ordered names like aa, ab etc.
You know what they say: "Different strokes for different folks." I'd say yours is among the most different...
regards Bogdan
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On Sunday 2007-08-26 02:08, Rajko M. wrote:
. . . but for instance: ~/.kde directory contains not only settings, but also KMail has all your mail in one of subdirectories. That you don't want to delete too.
Is this new? I'm using 10.2 and Kmail keeps only a few config files in locations under the .kde directory. All the mail is in ~/Mail Thanks, Ken. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sun August 26 2007 14:09, Ken Jennings wrote:
Is this new? I'm using 10.2 and Kmail keeps only a few config files in locations under the .kde directory. All the mail is in ~/Mail
If you have a directory ~/Mail when you first start KDE, it honours that directory and uses it. Otherwise it stores your e-mails under ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail . Check out what I wrote in May: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/2007-05/msg00077.html -- Carlos FL Who is General Failure, and why is he reading my disk? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sunday 26 August 2007 03:42:06 pm Carlos F Lange wrote:
On Sun August 26 2007 14:09, Ken Jennings wrote:
Is this new? I'm using 10.2 and Kmail keeps only a few config files in locations under the .kde directory. All the mail is in ~/Mail
If you have a directory ~/Mail when you first start KDE, it honours that directory and uses it. Otherwise it stores your e-mails under ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail .
Check out what I wrote in May: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/2007-05/msg00077.html
Thanks Carlos, I missed that mail in flood of others, just as, I guess it happend, to many other usefull tips. Hundred mails a day, with a lot of chatter that is better served in opensuse-offtopic list, makes me to read only "interesting" topics. It is somewhat unnatural to have mails buried in settings folder, but KDE does that with newsgroups and KNode, so I took it as their way.
Who is General Failure, and why is he reading my disk?
I don't know ;-) -- Regards, Rajko. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Cristea Bogdan wrote:
My home partition is almost full althow the files I created are not so big. My guess is that applications have created their own files. How can I delete these files without affecting my system? specially look at .thumbnails
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On Sunday, 26. August 2007, jdd wrote:
Cristea Bogdan wrote:
My home partition is almost full althow the files I created are not so big. My guess is that applications have created their own files. How can I delete these files without affecting my system?
specially look at .thumbnails
When this happens I select groups of directories in konqueror and look at their size - usually this puts me on the right track. Apps like k3b and other multimedia apps may create temporary files that somehow did not get deleted, and by default my use home as temp directory. An old problem was also an app that did *not* start because it wanted to be started from the command line and kept forever filing a log file (I think it was .xerror or something like this) until the directory was full. Thierry -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Thierry de Coulon wrote:
On Sunday, 26. August 2007, jdd wrote:
Cristea Bogdan wrote:
My home partition is almost full althow the files I created are not so big. My guess is that applications have created their own files. How can I delete these files without affecting my system? specially look at .thumbnails
When this happens I select groups of directories in konqueror and look at their size - usually this puts me on the right track.
kdirstat is extremely useful for exactly doing this. regards Eberhard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Cristea Bogdan wrote:
My home partition is almost full althow the files I created are not so big. My guess is that applications have created their own files. How can I delete these files without affecting my system?
Applications and files that affect your system are not likely in your home directory, though application data will be. You can use the du command to find out what files are largest etc. -- Use OpenOffice.org <http://www.openoffice.org> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
James Knott wrote:
Cristea Bogdan wrote:
My home partition is almost full althow the files I created are not so big. My guess is that applications have created their own files. How can I delete these files without affecting my system?
Applications and files that affect your system are not likely in your home directory, though application data will be. You can use the du command to find out what files are largest etc.
there is a special option in konqueror (was known as a standalone app previously) that gives a grafical view of the file sizze (in the menu with the photo views) jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://gourmandises.orangeblog.fr/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sunday 26 August 2007 06:12:27 am jdd wrote:
James Knott wrote:
Cristea Bogdan wrote:
My home partition is almost full althow the files I created are not so big. My guess is that applications have created their own files. How can I delete these files without affecting my system?
Applications and files that affect your system are not likely in your home directory, though application data will be. You can use the du command to find out what files are largest etc.
there is a special option in konqueror (was known as a standalone app previously) that gives a grafical view of the file sizze (in the menu with the photo views)
jdd
I have forgotten this. It is probably easier to reach, for the first time, with drop down menu View -- View Mode -- File Size View It is not ideal with default settings, as they tried to put as much information as they can on a single screen, but when this mode is active, the above mentioned View menu is changed and one can select different settings for this view mode. For instance: View -- Stop at Depth -- Depth 2 will tell viewer to show only sizes of content in current directory. This clears view to see only fewer items. The best in this mode is that it is still browsable like any other directory. -- Regards, Rajko. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Why not use "ln -s" if you can effort another harddisk (maybe with usb interface). move the "/home" directory to the harddisk and than do "cd / && ln -s /media/mynewusbharddisk /home" === On Sun, 26 Aug 2007 07:57:13 +0300 Cristea Bogdan <cristeab@gmail.com> wrote:
My home partition is almost full althow the files I created are not so big. My guess is that applications have created their own files. How can I delete these files without affecting my system? -- Cristea Bogdan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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On Sun, 2007-08-26 at 07:57 +0300, Cristea Bogdan wrote:
My home partition is almost full althow the files I created are not so big. My guess is that applications have created their own files. How can I delete these files without affecting my system?
Try the "baobab" tool; it gives you a graphical breakdown of how your hard drive is being used. It has been very helpful for me to free up some space in my laptop --- discovered a really old mail folder once, then some ISOs I forgot I had downloaded. Federico -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Monday 27 August 2007 17:37, Federico Mena Quintero wrote:
On Sun, 2007-08-26 at 07:57 +0300, Cristea Bogdan wrote:
My home partition is almost full althow the files I created are not so big. My guess is that applications have created their own files. How can I delete these files without affecting my system?
Try the "baobab" tool;
...or kdirstat which also has some clean-up facilities: http://kdirstat.sourceforge.net/ it's on your openSUSE DVD/CD/Online repository. CU -- Stefan Hundhammer <sh@suse.de> Penguin by conviction. YaST2 Development SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Nürnberg, Germany -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Monday 27 August 2007 09:18, Stefan Hundhammer wrote:
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Try the "baobab" tool;
...or kdirstat which also has some clean-up facilities:
And has the Pacman animation while scanning... More to the point, it gives a visualization of the kind of content and size of individual directories.
http://kdirstat.sourceforge.net/
it's on your openSUSE DVD/CD/Online repository.
It's also integrated into Konqueror. Access a directory then from the View menu select View Mode -> File Size View. The presentation is somewhat different, but gives the same basic view. And while you're there, try View -> View Mode -> RadialMap View.
CU -- Stefan Hundhammer
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On Monday 27 August 2007 12:35:58 Randall R Schulz wrote:
On Monday 27 August 2007 09:18, Stefan Hundhammer wrote:
...
Try the "baobab" tool;
...or kdirstat which also has some clean-up facilities:
And has the Pacman animation while scanning...
More to the point, it gives a visualization of the kind of content and size of individual directories.
http://kdirstat.sourceforge.net/
it's on your openSUSE DVD/CD/Online repository.
It's also integrated into Konqueror. Access a directory then from the View menu select View Mode -> File Size View. The presentation is somewhat different, but gives the same basic view.
And while you're there, try View -> View Mode -> RadialMap View.
Hmmmm, not for me in Konqueror. I get something called FSview with crazy different colored rectangles running horizontally & vertically. Useless. Wish I could change it. Running 10.2 and KDE 3.5.7 release 69.1 Bob S -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Monday 27 August 2007 11:14:19 pm Bob S wrote:
On Monday 27 August 2007 12:35:58 Randall R Schulz wrote: ...
And while you're there, try View -> View Mode -> RadialMap View.
Hmmmm, not for me in Konqueror. I get something called FSview with crazy different colored rectangles running horizontally & vertically. Useless. Wish I could change it.
Running 10.2 and KDE 3.5.7 release 69.1
Bob S
Have you looked in View menu in Konqueror menu bar, when this mode is active. It is not the same, and it can be used to configure presentation. See my other post in this thread. -- Regards, Rajko. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
* Rajko M. <rmatov101@charter.net> [08-28-07 00:30]:
Have you looked in View menu in Konqueror menu bar, when this mode is active. It is not the same, and it can be used to configure presentation. See my other post in this thread.
Possible that he is not starting from the same place :^). Go to Settings -> Load View Profile -> File Management then View -> View Mode -> File Size View Many available options can be confusing when you do not start looking from a profile containing the same options.... -- Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA HOG # US1244711 http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://counter.li.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Tuesday 28 August 2007 08:38:00 am Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Rajko M. <rmatov101@charter.net> [08-28-07 00:30]:
Have you looked in View menu in Konqueror menu bar, when this mode is active. It is not the same, and it can be used to configure presentation. See my other post in this thread.
Possible that he is not starting from the same place :^).
I think that he was on right place, just, he didn't like to many items in the view.
Go to Settings -> Load View Profile -> File Management then View -> View Mode -> File Size View
Many available options can be confusing when you do not start looking from a profile containing the same options....
The default is somewhat confusing for the people used to tree view of file system, but with reduction of the depth to 2 it is much closer to usual view. As jdd mentioned, with all functions of file system browser preserved, what can be better help to find large disk users. -- Regards, Rajko. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Bob S wrote:
Hmmmm, not for me in Konqueror. I get something called FSview with crazy different colored rectangles running horizontally & vertically. Useless. Wish I could change it.
useless ???? each rectangle size gives you the size of the file and it's name, you can clic on it to go inside a folder... even delete it if applicable what do you want more? jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://gourmandises.orangeblog.fr/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Tuesday 28 August 2007, Bob S said:
On Monday 27 August 2007 12:35:58 Randall R Schulz wrote:
On Monday 27 August 2007 09:18, Stefan Hundhammer wrote:
...
Try the "baobab" tool;
...or kdirstat which also has some clean-up facilities:
And has the Pacman animation while scanning...
More to the point, it gives a visualization of the kind of content and size of individual directories.
http://kdirstat.sourceforge.net/
it's on your openSUSE DVD/CD/Online repository.
It's also integrated into Konqueror. Access a directory then from the View menu select View Mode -> File Size View. The presentation is somewhat different, but gives the same basic view.
And while you're there, try View -> View Mode -> RadialMap View.
Hmmmm, not for me in Konqueror. I get something called FSview with crazy different colored rectangles running horizontally & vertically. Useless. Wish I could change it.
FSView works like KDirStat. The RadialMap mentioned by Randall comes from FileLight - see my other post in this thread for where to get it from, although both views work on the principle of area proportional to file/directory size, so you may be equally confounded by RadialMap. Will -- Desktop Engineer KDE Team -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Monday 27 August 2007 18:35, Randall R Schulz wrote:
http://kdirstat.sourceforge.net/
it's on your openSUSE DVD/CD/Online repository.
It's also integrated into Konqueror.
No. That konqueror view is "fsview". It's also a treemap, but it's not kdirstat. I should know -- I wrote kdirstat. ;-) CU -- Stefan Hundhammer <sh@suse.de> Penguin by conviction. YaST2 Development SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Nürnberg, Germany -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Monday 27 August 2007, Federico Mena Quintero said:
On Sun, 2007-08-26 at 07:57 +0300, Cristea Bogdan wrote:
My home partition is almost full althow the files I created are not so big. My guess is that applications have created their own files. How can I delete these files without affecting my system?
Try the "baobab" tool; it gives you a graphical breakdown of how your hard drive is being used. It has been very helpful for me to free up some space in my laptop --- discovered a really old mail folder once, then some ISOs I forgot I had downloaded.
And a couple of KDE tools for this task you might want to know about: KDirStat, the do-everything-and-then-some utility from our very own Stefan Hundhammer - available in the KDE:Backports repository - homepage: http://kdirstat.sourceforge.net/ Filelight: does less but wears more lipstick, available from KDE:Community - homepage: http://www.methylblue.com/filelight/ See http://software.opensuse.org/search if you're not used to adding repositories yet, and the text below that explains how to set up 1-Click Install for released versions of openSUSE. Will -- Desktop Engineer KDE Team -- Draft 1-Click Install guide: " Members of the openSUSE community have made it possible to for you to easily obtain packages from the openSUSE Build Service using 1-Click Install links returned by this search engine. But in order to use this new capability, you'll need to add it to your openSUSE 10.2 or older installation. To do this, follow these instructions 1. Start YaST2 and go to 'Installation Source'. 2. Click 'Add' and add the appropriate repository URL for your SUSE: *) openSUSE 10.2: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/openSUSE:/Tools/openSUSE_10.2 *) SUSE Linux 10.1: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/openSUSE:/Tools/SUSE_Linux_10.1 *) SUSE Linux 10.0: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/openSUSE:/Tools/SUSE_Linux_10.0 3. Click 'Finish'. 4. In YaST2, go to 'Software Management'. 5. Install yast2-metapackage-handler: In the Search field, enter 'yast2-metapackage-handler'. 6. Check the box for the package found, then click Accept. The 1-Click Install handler is installed. After installation completes, return to http://software.opensuse.org/search and you can now use the handy 1-Click Install links to install the software you find. " -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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