ccleaner for linux. Useful?

[tomcloyd]

Does a program exist for linux similiar to windirstat? Nice graphical depiction of used drive space and what files are taking the most room

I have used, and loved, K4DirStat for years. I believe that it's a port of WinDirStat - or maybe it's the other way around. It's very usable and useful, and fast enough to not be a pain at all. Try it, you'll like it! (Should be in the packages....)

[SecretCode]

xdiskusage gives you the same information as du, and du is the go-to command for simple cases. I started using xdiskusage after being frustrated one too many times with the output of du being thousands of lines, obscuring the one or two bits of information I was actually looking for.

[vsreeser]

http://unix.stackexchange.com/questi...ze-recursively

Useful info. Might make some alias's of these

[GreyGeek]

http://unix.stackexchange.com/questi...ze-recursively

[SecretCode]

My low-tech preference is xdiskusage. Runs from command line but creates a X-windows graphic. Mentioned, with a screenshot, in this thread: FAQ: Free Disk Space - Regenerated

I don't see a practical use for either one, since I can sort on the size column in Dolphin and I don't need a graph to compare file sizes.

The disadvantage - and for me it's very often a real pain - is that if you don't know in which folder and at what depth possible large files are, looking in Dolphin at one folder at a time is useless.

[GreyGeek]

You took the words right out of my mind!

[Snowhog]

Visual 'eye candy' with little actual value.

[GreyGeek]

Since I use btrfs I tried them both. Filelight just shows what it thinks is the total available disk space and gives one semi-circular blob representing 9% of the total space. Totally useless.

K4DirStat works as advertized. I don't see a practical use for either one, since I can sort on the size column in Dolphin and I don't need a graph to compare file sizes.

[vsreeser]

Both do the job. Filelight is a bit flashier, but ok nonetheless

[Wheel Inventor]

Kubuntu Forums - How to's

Thread: FAQ: Free Disk Space




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[GreyGeek]

WinDirStat is a clone of Kdirstat, now called K4DirStat. Baobob is another.

[jlittle]

Does a program exist for linux similiar to windirstat? Nice graphical depiction of used drive space and what files are taking the most room

The first hit on google for windirstat has this as its second line:

Note: if you are looking for an alternative for Linux, you are looking for KDirStat (apt-get install kdirstat)

Though I think filelight shows usage more graphically, if that's what you're after.

[vsreeser]

Does a program exist for linux similiar to windirstat? Nice graphical depiction of used drive space and what files are taking the most room

[vsreeser]

I haven't found a need for any of those kinds of utilities. Usually the big problem is firefox history and cache, which I handle through FF, careful not to erase my login accounts and password because I no longer remember any of them. Telling bleachbit what not to delete/scrub is more of a pain them doing it myself. What's really nice is when I decided to clean house I create a pre-snapshot (I use btrfs) and after I am done I create a post snapshot. IF, after a while everything still works OK I delete the pre snapshot. If not, I roll back to it and recover what I had before the disaster.

I use lastpass addon to remember passwords. especially across computers or OS in a dual boot. Just have to remember the master password. Got tired of copying URLs so I went with xmarks. I actually keep the firefox cache on a 2Gb ramdrive that copies to HDD hourly. It does speed browsing some. Starting to matter less since brighthouse just upgraded our speed to 150Mbps.



Internet and computer speed - good.
Speeding on the road - bad

[mbohets]

Watchout what you delete with bleachbit.
if you select delete all zero size files, you can get yourselves into a lot of trouble, some zero lenght files are used to signal things to other processes.
And there are some other settings that can ruin your system.

Apart from that, I totally agree with Greygeek, there is not really a need for such tools in linux.
This is a typical windows kind of thing, there you really need to clean up regularly to keep it going at a normal speed.

If you have plenty of space, don't bother, if your disk space starts to run low, then start looking for things you don't need anymore.
Filelight or something similar can give you more insight on what is taking up a lot of space.