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tataraperz

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Registered: 2011-01-05

Posts: 21

/home partition uses nearly 10gb for nothing

Hi, just installed arch with kde desktop, i used a 190gb partition as mount point for /home, but with nothing on it but only some config files it takes up almost 10gb when i right click /home and select properties...

Why can this be? I went through all the folders and none of them uses up as much space.

Thanks and sorry for my english.

Inxsible

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From: Chicago

Registered: 2008-06-09

Posts: 9,183

Re: /home partition uses nearly 10gb for nothing

the filesystem does take some space.....but 10gb still seems a lot. Try running this command and it will list the top 10 memory hogs in your home.

Make sure you are in the /home folder when you run this.

du -cma * | sort -rn | head -10

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tataraperz

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Registered: 2011-01-05

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Re: /home partition uses nearly 10gb for nothing

[root@OtnielLaptop home]# du -cma * | sort -rn | head -10
729     total
729     otniel
626     otniel/.local/share
626     otniel/.local
487     otniel/.local/share/Trash/files
487     otniel/.local/share/Trash
140     otniel/.local/share/akonadi/db_data
140     otniel/.local/share/akonadi
118     otniel/.local/share/Trash/files/eclipse_1
115     otniel/.local/share/Trash/files/pokemon/eclipse

It says 6% is used, btw i don't remember where but i read about ext4 taking up 5 or 6 percent of the partition space... if that's the case then everythings fine, but still seems like a ridicously big amount of space and can't imagine how much this would take on big partitions.

Edit:
Bingo! http://blog.flexion.org/index.php/2010/ … pace-ext4/     as i said the measure is just ridiculous.

Last edited by tataraperz (2011-01-05 01:09:24)

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: /home partition uses nearly 10gb for nothing

Or maybe it's some leftover data, like otniel/.local/share/Trash/files/pokemon/eclipse.
Doesn't look like "some config file" to me :-)

Last edited by karol (2011-01-05 01:16:41)

Allan

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Registered: 2007-06-09

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Re: /home partition uses nearly 10gb for nothing

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ex … stem_Space

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