And that's all, I'm happy since I was out of space.
I normally use rm for that. Or wipefs if I'm feeling particularly spicy.
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Filelight is about finding the folders you don't use that take a lot of space. Basically an easier way to look into which folder takes up what.
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I'm here to promote fclones. I've used it twice and recovered over a terabyte on my NAS the last time I used it. I'm not affiliated. Hyperspace for Mac is similar (but different) and I haven't used it, but it was developed by my favorite nerd podcast host. I'm planning to test it out eventually, but the latest fclones run was only about a month ago, so it doesn't make sense to try it yet.
Fclones is a great tool, but it's for finding duplicate files and replacing them with sym-/hard-/reflinks.
I recommend using the --cache option to make subsequent runs extremely quick.
--cache option
I will check this out!
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.
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.
My users home directory is ephemeral as well, so this wouldn't happen. Everything I didn't declare to persist is deleted on reboot.
What I do use tools like these for is verifying that my persistent storage paths are properly bind mounted and files end up in the correct filesystem.
I use dust for this, specifically with the -x flag to not traverse multiple filesystems.
Those are rookie numbers.
Does Linux have spacesniffer?
No, and I miss it. Space sniffer was so good.