Nepomuk/Strigi filled my disk

[Martin (KDE)]

Anne Wilson schrieb:
> On Thursday 05 March 2009 08:08:23 Jay Mistry wrote:
>   
>> On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 12:58 PM, Anne Wilson <cannewilson at googlemail.com> 
>>     
> wrote:
>   
>>> Foolishly I allowed indexing of a remote data disk, and now I find that
>>> my local disk is dangerously full.  I tried 'du -x / | sort -n' to find
>>> where the big file is, without success.  On the 3rd February I had 1.9G
>>> free in /home - now it is 195MB.  
>>>       
>
> Actually, it's worse than I said (only just awake and mis-read the directory).
>
> 3rd February
>  --------------------- Disk Space Begin ------------------------ 
>
>  Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>  /dev/sda5             7.8G  5.6G  1.9G  75% /
>  /dev/sda7              33G   13G   21G  38% /home
>  /dev/sda2             8.8G  7.7G  1.2G  88% /mnt/win_c
>  /dev/sda3             2.0G  375M  1.6G  19% /mnt/win_d
>  
> now
>  Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>  /dev/sda5             7.8G  5.9G  1.6G  79% /
>  /dev/sda7              33G   33G  197M 100% /home
>  /dev/sda2             8.8G  7.7G  1.2G  88% /mnt/win_c
>  /dev/sda3             2.0G  375M  1.6G  19% /mnt/win_d
>
> so I'm looking for something really big in /home
>   

hm, whats about running 'du -s .* * | sort -n' in your home directory?

>   
>>> What do I look for to reclaim this
>>> space?  Thanks
>>>
>>> Anne
>>>       
>> Check using KdIrStat (I have ver 2.4.4 that works on KDE 4.2.1- though
>> it says "using KDE 3.5.9. I have KDE 3.5.9 with it's KDE3 Base also
>> installed), else you can use FileLight
>> (http://www.methylblue.com/filelight/) to check what files take up how
>> much space.
>>
>>     
> KdirStat tells me where I can reclaim some useful space, but the directory it 
> lists as the biggest user is one of my music directories, where nothing has 
> been added since Christmas, so that's not what I'm looking for.
>   

May be, kdirStat only looks for non hidden (aka .file files) so the 
.strigi and others are ignored.

>   
>> Ncurses equivalent is ncdu (http://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdu/).
>>
>> Also, it may help to check your log file directories....I quote from
>> this thread from openSUSE Forums:
>> http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/2009-02/msg02348.html.
>> Though you may use a different flavor of Linux, this may be relevant
>> to your version also.
>>
>>     
> I run tmpwatch weekly, both on my user and root tmp directories, so they never 
> get big.
>
> Anne
>   
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>   

Martin
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