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Thanks to dust I deleted a 70 gig file on my drive (lm.paradisus.day)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Dust is a rewrite of du (in rust obviously) that visualizes your directory tree and what percentage each file takes up. But it only prints as many files fit in your terminal height, so you see only the largest files. It's been a better experience that du, which isn't always easy to navigate to find big files (or atleast I'm not good at it.)

Anyway, found a log file at .local/state/nvim/log that was 70gb. I deleted it. Hope it doesn't bite me. Been pushing around 95% of disk space for a while so this was a huge win 👍

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Almost the same here. Well, du -shc *|sort -hr

I admin around three hundred linux servers and this is one of my most common tasks - although I use -shc as I like the total too, and don't bother with less as it's only the biggest files and dirs that I'm interested in and they show up last, so no need to scrollback.

When managing a lot of servers, the storage requirements when installing extra software is never trivial. (Although our storage does do very clever compression and it might recognise the duplication of the file even across many vm filesystems, I'm never quite sure that works as advertised on small files)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

We'd use du -xh --max-depth=1|sort -hr

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

du -xh --max-depth=1|sort -hr

Interesting. Do you often deal with dirs on different filesystems?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, I was a Linux System Admin/Engineering for MLB/Disney+ for 5 years. When I was an admin, one of our tasks was clearing out filled filesystems on hosts that alerted.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Sounds pretty similar to what I do now - but never needed the -x. Guess that might be quicker when you're nested somewhere there is a bunch of nfs/smb stuff mounted in.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

We'd do it from root (/) and drill down from there, it was usually /var/lib or /var/logs that was filling up, but occasionally someone would upload a 4.5 GB file to their home folder which has a quota of 5 GB.

Using ncdu would have been the best way, but that would require it being installed on about 7 thousand machines.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I admin around three hundred linux servers

What do you use for management? Ansible? Puppet? Chef? Something else entirely?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Main tool is Uyuni, but we use Ansible and AWX for building new vms, and adhoc ansible for some changes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Interesting; I hadn't heard of Uyuni before. Thanks for the info!