[GLLUG] Managing space in disk.

[Erin Landis]

As far as identifying what is taking up disk space, I always went about it the old fashioned way, with 'du':

'du -h / --max-depth 1 | less'

Then go from there.

I'm sure that could feed into a neat one-liner to point out the heavy-hitters, but I never took the time to write it.

Erin Landis
Linux Systems Engineer
Office - 1-517-664-7818

-----Original Message-----
From: linux-user [mailto:linux-user-bounces at egr.msu.edu] On Behalf Of Ben Chavez
Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2016 12:11 PM
To: linux-user at egr.msu.edu
Subject: [GLLUG] Managing space in disk.

I had an issue recently with an update in Ubuntu where the update manager complained that I didn't have enough free space in the disk to complete the upgrade (My root partition is 25 GB from a 500GB hard drive) I googled how to free up space in Ubuntu and I found this command  "dpkg -l 'linux-*' | sed '/^ii/!d;/'"$(uname -r | sed "s/\(.*\)-\([^0-9]\+\)/\1/")"'/d;s/^[^ ]* [^ ]* \([^ ]*\).*/\1/;/[0-9]/!d' | xargs sudo apt-get -y purge"

I really don't know in detail how that command works but I understand it would remove old headers and images from past kernels upgrades so after the command was done running I had 11 GB available.

Now I would like to that in other distros that I have installed and I haven't done any cleaning in years. Can you guys share your experience managing disk space? I will be interested to know _______________________________________________
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