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

submitted 1 year 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] 108 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I think something might be wrong with your Neovim if it aggregated 70 gigs of log files.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 year ago (1 children)

don't worry, they've just been using neovim for 700 years, it'll be alright

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sure, that's also a possibility. I'd be interested in their time machine though.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

https://feddit.uk/post/3875313

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So I found out that qbittorrent generates errors in a log whenever it tries to write to a disk that is full...

Everytime my disk was full I would clear out some old torrents, then all the pending log entries would write and the disk would be full again. The log was well over 50gb by the time I figured out that i'm an idiot. Hooray for having dedicated machines.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago

That's not entirely your fault; that's pathological on the part of the program.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

I once did something even dumber. When I was new to Linux and the CLI, I added a recursive line to my shell config that would add it self to the shell config. So I pretty much had exponential growth of my shell config and my shell would take ~20 seconds to start up before I found the broken code snippet.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you have ideas please let me know. I'm preparing to hop distros so I'm very tempted to ignore the problem, blame the old distro, and hope it doesn't happen again :)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I would have to look at the log file. Some plugin probably has an issue and writes massive amounts of data to the log every time you use Neovim. Monitor the growth of the log file and contact me via DM if it goes crazy again, I'm gonna try to figure out what's going on.