I'm having some problems with a full disk.
According to df -k
I'm using 47 gb of data in my home folder and I have no idea where all of that data is hiding. I tried using the disk usage analyser
aka baobab
but since my home directory is encrypted I can't analyse which folders are using all of the data (since the $home directory is just a virtual representation of my encrypted data and is more of a phantom view so baobab just keeps scanning endlessly without counting any data when I ask it to just scan my home directory).
Does anyone know of a good method to analyse where all of my disk space went??
Btw does anyone have some good suggestions for clearing up disk space?
Best Answer
open a terminal
at the command prompt enter the command
du /home/$USER| sort -n
and you'll soon find where all the space is being used near the bottom of the output. Videos seems a likely location or perhaps the directory you store your Virtual Machines.
This takes just a few seconds on my system.