Linux

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

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.

I install ncdu on any machine I set up, because installing it when it's needed may be tricky

Try dua. It's like ncdu but uses multiple threads so it's a lot faster., especially on SSDs.

But did he even look at the log file? They don't get that big when things are running properly, so it was probably warning him about something. Like "Warning: Whatever you do, don't delete this file. It contains the protocol conversion you will need to interface with the alien computers to prevent their takeover."

If you want to scan without crossing partitions, run with -x

Same, but when it's real bad sort fails 😅 for some reason my root is always hitting 100%

I usually go for du -hx | sort -h and rely on my terminal scroll back.

dust does more than what this script does, its a whole new tool. I find dust more human readable by default.

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)

I'd say head -n25 instead of less since the offending files are probably near the top anyway

Yeah I got turned onto ncdu recently and I’ve been installing it on every vm I work on now

thanks for sharing a screenshot of ncdu, should help others discover it

for the visualization itself IMHO Disk Usage Analyzer gives aesthetically pleasing results, not a fan of the UX but it works well enough to identify efficiently large files or directories

I've definitely had to handle 30gb plain text files before so I am inclined to believe twice as much should be just as possible

Qdirstat? https://github.com/shundhammer/qdirstat Filelight is also really good https://apps.kde.org/filelight/

If WizTree is available on Linux then I highly recommend it over all other alternatives.

It reads straight from the table and is done within a couple of seconds.

Filelight on linux

Squirreldisk on windows

Both libre