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[dedanna1029]

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du -akx / | sort -nr | head -n 25

Beware this code in Mageia, whatever folder you're using it on. It uses, on average, 80%-100% CPU, and will bog you to no end. I have had to use it several times today to get my / straightened out. It seemed that no matter how many games I uninstalled, my / size would increase every time I uninstalled something (yeah, strange):

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[root@dedanna ~]# du -akx / | sort -nr | head -n 25
20610323   /
18264275   /usr
13967335   /usr/share
8601747   /usr/share/games
2956667   /usr/lib
1620116   /var
1250986   /usr/share/games/vegastrike
1202731   /usr/share/alienarena
1200786   /usr/share/alienarena/data1
984459   /var/log
974896   /var/log/journal/24462e417e974066a458aeeccefa29bd
974896   /var/log/journal
922930   /usr/share/games/ufoai
916445   /usr/share/games/ufoai/base
867659   /usr/share/games/nexuiz/data
867659   /usr/share/games/nexuiz
867627   /usr/share/games/nexuiz/data/data20091001.pk3
707871   /usr/bin
697273   /usr/share/doc
637998   /opt
583408   /usr/share/icons
570041   /usr/share/games/torcs
539431   /usr/share/games/megaglest
502261   /usr/share/games/vegastrike/units
438509   /usr/share/alienarena/data1/maps
[root@dedanna ~]#

It seems /var/log is the culprit right now, not much I can do about it until logrotate's done.
Here's the kicker:

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:) top

top - 12:44:27 up 12:56,  2 users,  load average: 2.14, 2.22, 1.80
Tasks: 154 total,   2 running, 152 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s): 25.9%us, 36.3%sy,  0.0%ni, 25.3%id, 11.5%wa,  0.2%hi,  0.9%si,  0.0%st
Mem:   1020056k total,   921860k used,    98196k free,    83520k buffers
Swap:  2103348k total,   353816k used,  1749532k free,   218308k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND                                                         
--> 4468 root      20   0  6116 1164  636 D   60  0.1   0:59.15 du                                                             
--> 4469 root      20   0 10148 5132  820 R   26  0.5   1:14.91 sort                                                           
 2068 dedanna   20   0  392m  61m  19m S   11  6.2  63:05.20 plasma-desktop                                                 
  720 root      20   0 69204  24m  11m S    6  2.5  43:17.50 X                                                               
 4013 dedanna   20   0 90912  17m  13m S    5  1.7   0:31.84 kswarm.kss                                                     
 1762 dedanna   20   0  254m  32m  13m S    3  3.3   0:53.98 kopete                                                         
 2959 dedanna   20   0 70300  15m 6556 S    2  1.6   0:40.20 python                                                         
 4328 dedanna   20   0  191m  33m  23m S    2  3.4   0:28.77 dolphin                                                         
 2616 dedanna   20   0 64212  16m 4192 S    1  1.6   4:55.47 net_applet                                                     
 4711 dedanna   20   0  2872 1116  832 R    1  0.1   0:00.28 top

... and that was at the second it wasn't at 100%, which was rare. I've never had it take up so much CPU power until Mageia.

[viking60]

Well I installed ncdu and it shows that my virtualbox is still the biggest but that is reserved space so it is OK
My big extra now is the old home that I have copied over to this computer and it will eventually disappear.
At the moment I am using 87% and everything is blistering fast.


And ncdu does not take much CPU.

[jkerr82508]

On my Mageia box that command takes only a few seconds to complete and never uses more than 30% of CPU, but then, I don't have any games installed, and my / partition uses less than 7 GB.

Jim

[viking60]

On my Mageia box that command takes only a few seconds to complete and never uses more than 30% of CPU, but then, I don't have any games installed, and my / partition uses less than 7 GB.

Jim

That's almost cheating!
My Home is more than 30 times bigger and I have steam and games (to many of them are auto installed so it makes good sense to remove those though)
I simply click on the group kdegames and remove the ones I do not want.

[jkerr82508]

ncdu is new to me, but it is fast and looks to be a really powerful tool. I haven't explored all the options yet - that will be something to do during my next "playtime". Lot's more fun than playing "games".

Jim

[viking60]

True!
ncdu is in the rosa repos so I guess you have it in Mageia too (mine is not working at the moment because the update toke to much space - oh the irony )
You just highlight what you want to look at and go one level down with ARROW RIGHT and back with ARROW LEFT

[dedanna1029]

I've just realized that it wasn't my root space being used that was going up. The meter on my desktop that I use switched gears on me and decided to start showing available space, rather than used space (and it's normally used space that it shows).