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utore

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From: USA

Registered: 2008-01-27

Posts: 67

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Spring Cleanup

So I started cleaning out my system this week (note: I reinstalled Arch a little over a week ago) after having amassed some 20gb (not including my music library) in the past year on my home partition. I've been able to transfer most of the large files (vbox vdis) to my external drive and compress some long unused files and keep my home partition small.

Before:

$ du -hs --exclude-from='du.txt' /home
4.3G    /home

After transferring and compressing:

$ du -hs --exclude-from='du.txt' /home
22.1G /home

Excluded includes where my external drive and my music partition mounts in /home. Also keep in mind that I have a few torrents that total to 1.8gb right now, but once they finish, they're moved to my external drive and I will seed for a while.

[utore@valdec ~]$ du -hs --exclude-from='du.txt' /home/utore/downloads
1.8G /home/utore/downloads

Then I went on to exclude ~/downloads:
[utore@valdec ~]$ du -hs --exclude-from='du.txt' /home
2.5G /home

So literally, I have 2.5gb of files in /home that are attributed to me.

Coming from 22.1gb, that's damn good.

Now for /. I will now just exclude /home altogether being that it's mounted from a different partition.

 $ du -hs --exclude='/home' /
3.7G /

/ is a work in progress. I'm a bit too scared to do much cleaning there (plus it's a really good size, so we'll see).

$ du -hs /
57G /

To think though, I have a 500gb hdd in this box and I only use 57gb (the bulk of the space used from my 35gb music collection). I feel like I just stepped out of the shower.

Are you cleaning your box anytime soon?

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amokkk

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From: PL

Registered: 2008-04-18

Posts: 51

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Re: Spring Cleanup

well i'm doin' it right now, and not 1 but 2 boxes. while system dirs are pretty neat and clean, there's nearly 1TB of other stuff to browse and sort wish me luck </me hides in cyber-cave>

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B-Con

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From: USA

Registered: 2007-12-17

Posts: 554

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Re: Spring Cleanup

I have my data storage hierarchy somewhat pieced together over the years. It's pretty bad, espeically considering its roots stem from when I used to use Windows. I need to get on it soon... sigh.

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Obi-Lan

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From: Finland

Registered: 2007-05-23

Posts: 179

Re: Spring Cleanup

Based on my personal experience, external hard disks tend to break in about one year or two so I don't trust them as a long term storage space. At work I've seen broken Lacies, WD:s and some cheap brand external closures. Also laptop hard disk tends to break down in couple of years. Currently I have data spread over different machines and DVD:s and I don't like it. I would definetly need spring cleaning too but I think I need to get server for all data. 1Tb disks seems to be in reasonable price range nowdays...

As a solutions to manage huge amount of files: Last week I saw system called M-Files in use, its basically a database where you store your all files, define some metadata and user permissions for them. For user it shows itself as a normal file share (trough some windows only app, doesn't work with samba). Seemed to be pretty simple to use. I think biggest problem I see with this system is to keep database runing and not compatible with linux

Last edited by Obi-Lan (2008-05-17 21:01:54)