Howdy all,
I bought a on-sale laptop. It's an: ASUS VivoBook 15.6" FHD Laptop,
Quad-Core Ryzen 5 2500U Processor (up to 3.6 GHz) with Radeon Vega 8
Graphics, 8 GB DDR4, 256 GB M.2 SSD, 802.11ac Wi-Fi - F505ZA-DH51. It's
a race car for me at least. I downloaded Ubunu 19.04 and made a bootable
USB drive and installed. Boy is it good looking! I can't wait to get all
of my data migrated but I am. As you see the SSD is not so large as the
1TB I have on my old ACER. I thought that I was using about 45% disk
space and was not, of course, worried because the drive is so large
capacity. I never finished migrating all of my data from my previous and
hosed 500GBSSD that Mark helped, or actually did, save so I have some
scattered data on the ACER and on the 500SSD. In prepping to start
moving stuff around I used the GUI Disk Analyzer and very much to my
surprise I found files of up to 49GB!! I have 5 or 6 WINE programs I run
and that shows up as a 39GB folder. Now that makes no sense at all, as
is the case with several other folders. I have a folder for my activism
stuff and that's 29GB which is outlandishly wrong. So the Disk analyzer
is wrong or somehow these folders have been growing on their own,
bloating like a president's ego. My Q is, what console tool would give
me the disk usage in a tree-like format (I know not like a GUI but a
list from highest to lowest size of folders). Is this possible?
It appears that if the GUI Disk Analyzer is correct then I can lose a
few items, like the wine programs, VMs and other unnecessaries and have
plenty of space on the new drive. I had planned to use the 1TB drive as
a storage device for my 10,000+ photos, etc. This would work but I don't
trust the GUI and don't want to start some weird event and lose data nor
do I want to transfer mostly useless data that is actually a couple
Gigs and not the tens of GB I am seeing.
I'll check out the forums for a console command but i thought I'd go to
the best first.
Cheers
Brian
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