Losing disk space

Llama · 2009-12-15 12:58:43

Hi,

Downloaded a passworded rar torrent, about 700M, to be unrared twice; after all the trying got an 'incorrect password' message. Deleted everything, in the end. It looks like more than 1Gb of disk space is somehow lost after all the shenanigans. Any ideas?

KDE, Dolphin, Ark; trashbin checked, hidden files checked, more or less .

karol · 2009-12-15 13:11:08

'man find' - use it to find out what new files you have on your system.
'pacman -S ncdu' can also help.

Last edited by karol (2009-12-15 13:12:26)

ijanos · 2009-12-15 13:11:13

it probably in /tmp which is deleted during every boot. I suggest no to think about it if the space still occupied after next boot, then start looking for it (there are various GUI and CLI tools for disk usage visaulization)

Surgat_ · 2009-12-15 13:12:12

What about http://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra … utils-kdf/ ?

Llama · 2009-12-16 07:39:31

ijanos wrote:

it probably in /tmp which is deleted during every boot. I suggest no to think about it if the space still occupied after next boot, then start looking for it (there are various GUI and CLI tools for disk usage visaulization)

Yes, it cleared after reboot. Kind of ununixlike, though . Some names of disk usage tools are welcome...

Llama · 2009-12-16 07:53:56

Surgat_ wrote:

What about http://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra … utils-kdf/ ?

KDiskFree doesn't seem any more enlightening than df -h, unless I miss on some features.

toad · 2009-12-16 07:54:30

In case you rip dvds or some such, i.e. shovel several GBs around and your tmp is mounted under / and your / is on a 10GB or 15GB partition you can run into problems. Solution would be to mount tmp on a separate partition if it becomes a problem. Alternatively clear your tmp manually or specify whichever programme maxes it out to use another partition (which is what I did with k9copy).

ijanos · 2009-12-16 09:18:49

Llama wrote:

ijanos wrote:
it probably in /tmp which is deleted during every boot. I suggest no to think about it if the space still occupied after next boot, then start looking for it (there are various GUI and CLI tools for disk usage visaulization)
Yes, it cleared after reboot. Kind of ununixlike, though . Some names of disk usage tools are welcome...

ncdu for the console, baobab for gnome desktop (part of the gnome-utils package iirc) also there is pysize in aur which has gui and command line interface too. Using /tmp is straightforward, everything temporary goes there

toad · 2009-12-16 09:27:01

Thanks ijanos, ncdu is nice, beats du --max-depth=2 anytime

xdiskusage is another one, DE independent.

karol · 2009-12-16 14:37:13

> Thanks ijanos, ncdu is nice, beats du --max-depth=2 anytime
You should be careful thought, you can delete / cleanup by hitting 'd' - a bit un-unixish but may be useful.

jdarnold · 2009-12-16 15:49:37

I'm a big fan of Filelight for disk usage graph, at least for KDE

Last edited by jdarnold (2009-12-16 15:49:53)

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