Re: Erase cache, clean registry in Linux

["Damon L. Chesser" <damon@damtek.com>]

On Wed, 2008-11-26 at 18:25 -0600, lee wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 02:35:22PM -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote:
> 
> > 350 MB? I have not cleaned my thumbnails since early 2007 or so
> > and I had 1.6 GB.
> 
> You probably have been using applications that create thumbnails more
> than I did. I'm using some gnome applications, but I'm not using
> gnome ...
> 
> > And my /home disk is only 120 GB, but I still don't care. I would
> > care if my ~ is messy, but XDG standards are starting to fix that.
> 
> Well, my data goes back about 10 to 15 years, and I'm at 117GB atm. I
> spent most of the day yesterday to clean it up and sort some things
> out, and that reduced it from 120GB to 117. I still haven't figured
> out what takes up so much space ...

SNIP

See package Filelight.  Very useful to "see" where all your disk space
is used and by what.

HTH


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