Space used by programmes

[anonprivate]

Is there a command that I can use that will tell me how much diskspace a programme is using?

Other commands that relate to disk space would also be helpful

I tried du and got a massive output with some undefined numbers to the left.

Thanks

[OneLine]

Space

FAQ: Free Disk Space: https://www.kubuntuforums.net/showth...ce-Regenerated

[anika200]

Have you tried Filelight http://methylblue.com/filelight/ it is in the standard repos.

[Teunis]

The way programs are installed, bits 'n pieces in different places, it's hard to say how much disk space an individual program uses.

But if you install a .deb from the command line (CLI) you are usually told x kB is going to be downloaded and y kB of extra disk space is going to be used.

In my opinion the best utility to check for disk space is K4DirStat, it's based on the original Windows program called SequoiaView.

[vinnywright]

df -h

will give you total space ,,free and clear,,of mounted file systems

vinny@vinnys-HP-G62:~$ df -h
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda6        30G   17G   11G  62% /
[COLOR=#ff0000]none            4.0K     0  4.0K   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
udev            1.9G  4.0K  1.9G   1% /dev
tmpfs           376M  1.4M  374M   1% /run
none            5.0M     0  5.0M   0% /run/lock
none            1.9G  148K  1.9G   1% /run/shm
none            100M   20K  100M   1% /run/user[/COLOR]
/dev/sda7       184G  127G   48G  73% /mnt/disk1
/dev/sda3       193G  180G  3.2G  99% /mnt/disk

you can ignore the ones in red ,,,,,,they are system file systems.

apt show package name

(where "package name" is the name of a package) will show info about a package including it's installed size ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

vinny@vinnys-HP-G62:~$ apt show bleachbit
Package: bleachbit
Priority: optional
Section: universe/admin
[COLOR=#ff0000]Installed-Size: 1,950 kB[/COLOR]
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com>
Original-Maintainer: Luca Falavigna <dktrkranz@debian.org>
Version: 1.0-1
Depends: python:any (>= 2.7.1-0ubuntu2), python (>= 2.6) | python-simplejson, python-gtk2 (>= 2.14), menu
Recommends: python-notify
Download-Size: 251 kB
Homepage: http://bleachbit.sourceforge.net
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu
APT-Manual-Installed: yes
APT-Sources: http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/universe amd64 Packages
Description: delete unnecessary files from the system
 BleachBit deletes unnecessary files to free valuable disk space, maintain
 privacy, and remove junk. It removes cache, Internet history, temporary files,
 cookies, and broken shortcuts.
 .
 It handles cleaning of Adobe Reader, Bash, Beagle, Epiphany, Firefox, Flash,
 GIMP, Google Earth, Java, KDE, OpenOffice.org, Opera, RealPlayer, rpmbuild,
 Second Life Viewer, VIM, XChat, and more.
 .
 Beyond simply erasing junk files, BleachBit wipes free disk space (to hide
 previously deleted files for privacy and to improve compression of images),
 vacuums Firefox databases (to improve performance without deleting data), and
 securely shreds arbitrary files.

VINNY

[anonprivate]

df -h

will give you total space ,,free and clear,,of mounted file systems

vinny@vinnys-HP-G62:~$ df -h
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda6        30G   17G   11G  62% /
[COLOR=#ff0000]none            4.0K     0  4.0K   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
udev            1.9G  4.0K  1.9G   1% /dev
tmpfs           376M  1.4M  374M   1% /run
none            5.0M     0  5.0M   0% /run/lock
none            1.9G  148K  1.9G   1% /run/shm
none            100M   20K  100M   1% /run/user[/COLOR]
/dev/sda7       184G  127G   48G  73% /mnt/disk1
/dev/sda3       193G  180G  3.2G  99% /mnt/disk

you can ignore the ones in red ,,,,,,they are system file systems.

apt show package name

(where "package name" is the name of a package) will show info about a package including it's installed size ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

vinny@vinnys-HP-G62:~$ apt show bleachbit
Package: bleachbit
Priority: optional
Section: universe/admin
[COLOR=#ff0000]Installed-Size: 1,950 kB[/COLOR]
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com>
Original-Maintainer: Luca Falavigna <dktrkranz@debian.org>
Version: 1.0-1
Depends: python:any (>= 2.7.1-0ubuntu2), python (>= 2.6) | python-simplejson, python-gtk2 (>= 2.14), menu
Recommends: python-notify
Download-Size: 251 kB
Homepage: http://bleachbit.sourceforge.net
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu
APT-Manual-Installed: yes
APT-Sources: http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/universe amd64 Packages
Description: delete unnecessary files from the system
 BleachBit deletes unnecessary files to free valuable disk space, maintain
 privacy, and remove junk. It removes cache, Internet history, temporary files,
 cookies, and broken shortcuts.
 .
 It handles cleaning of Adobe Reader, Bash, Beagle, Epiphany, Firefox, Flash,
 GIMP, Google Earth, Java, KDE, OpenOffice.org, Opera, RealPlayer, rpmbuild,
 Second Life Viewer, VIM, XChat, and more.
 .
 Beyond simply erasing junk files, BleachBit wipes free disk space (to hide
 previously deleted files for privacy and to improve compression of images),
 vacuums Firefox databases (to improve performance without deleting data), and
 securely shreds arbitrary files.

VINNY

very useful, as always.

Do you have any tips for remembering useful commands?

Best wishes.

A

[anonprivate]

FAQ: Free Disk Space: https://www.kubuntuforums.net/showth...ce-Regenerated

Useful link, thanks

[anonprivate]

Have you tried Filelight http://methylblue.com/filelight/ it is in the standard repos.

Not yet

[theAdmiral71]

http://unix.stackexchange.com/questi...ommand-options

[anonprivate]

http://unix.stackexchange.com/questi...ommand-options

Thank you.

[theAdmiral71]

You're welcome.

[Snowhog]

Do you have any tips for remembering useful commands?

Start a journal. That's what I do.

[anonprivate]

Am I correct in thinking that all the commands used in konsole are Bash commands?

Thanks

[Snowhog]

No.

[whatthefunk]

Am I correct in thinking that all the commands used in konsole are Bash commands?

Thanks

Some are Bash commands, but many are just program names followed by arguments for the programs. In this thread, there has been no Bash. For example:

apt show bleachbit

apt is a program name while show and bleachbit are arguments for that program which tell it what to do. In this case, show gives package information for the package bleachbit.