[Solved]What is taking up my space?
Posted: 29 Feb 2016, 05:09
I recently installed Porteus Nemesis as the only OS on my hd in my latop. When I open up the file manager, it states on the bottom right that I have 865.5 GiB free out of a total of 916.8 GiB. I still have a lot of space left but I am just wondering, how did I end up consuming 50 GiB in just a day? I cannot figure out what is taking up so much space.
Here is an output of the 'du -sh *' command I performed as root on '/'.
I am sure that the above sizes do not add up to 50 GiB. Is this normal? I haven't installed much besides firefox, flash, redshift, thermald, and other upgrades. Does this have something to do with the fact that Poreus is a "live" OS? If my Porteus takes up so much space, would it even run on my 32 GiB usb drive?
Also, my laptop is suppose to have 1TB of storage space, so I expected a total size of at least 950 GiB. What took up almost 90 GiB of space?
Sorry if these are basic questions, but I just cannot seem to wrap my head around this.
On a side note, what are those errors I am getting? If such files or directories do not exist, how does 'du -sh *' even know that its suppose to search for them? What kind of wtichcraft is this? If it doesn't exist in the first place, how do you even know about it?
Here is an output of the 'du -sh *' command I performed as root on '/'.
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root / # du -sh *
0 bin
0 boot
0 dev
20M etc
du: cannot access 'home/guest/.gvfs': Permission denied
2.8G home
3.8M include
0 lib
0 lib64
du: cannot access 'mnt/live/proc/8342/task/8342/fd/4': No such file or directory
du: cannot access 'mnt/live/proc/8342/task/8342/fdinfo/4': No such file or directory
du: cannot access 'mnt/live/proc/8342/fd/4': No such file or directory
du: cannot access 'mnt/live/proc/8342/fdinfo/4': No such file or directory
5.8G mnt
0 opt
53K root
608K run
0 sbin
0 srv
6.4M tmp
2.1G usr
212M var
Also, my laptop is suppose to have 1TB of storage space, so I expected a total size of at least 950 GiB. What took up almost 90 GiB of space?
Sorry if these are basic questions, but I just cannot seem to wrap my head around this.
On a side note, what are those errors I am getting? If such files or directories do not exist, how does 'du -sh *' even know that its suppose to search for them? What kind of wtichcraft is this? If it doesn't exist in the first place, how do you even know about it?