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 --
Brian. Good. Look at 'du' and pipe it to sort or use the appropriate argument from du itself. Just a way to start. I've used 'du' and gotten a list of files by size, but it has been a while. Ted P. On Mon, Jul 29, 2019, 6:27 PM Brian O'Keefe <okeefe@cybermesa.com> wrote:
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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Brian O'Keefe writes:
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?
ncdu is great for tracking down disk hogs. It uses ncurses so it doesn't need X to be running. ...Akkana
Absolutely perfect for what I wanted. I do get a warning that some values may be incorrect because of "errors scanning .cache/dconf and .cache/dconf/SkypeforLinux/SkypeRT folders some directory sizes may not be correct". ncdu gives the same sizes as the DiskUsage GUI. I did find that all of my photos were copied into ~/.PlayOnLinux/Wineprefix. This is incredibly weird and I can only think Shotwell copied them to that directory. There are at least similar situations with other directories though not pix. This requires some investigation. On 7/29/19 7:25 PM, Akkana Peck wrote:
Brian O'Keefe writes:
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?
ncdu is great for tracking down disk hogs. It uses ncurses so it doesn't need X to be running.
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I discovered with Mars' du command that it's only a permissions issue. Run as root Brian On 7/30/19 12:52 PM, Brian O'Keefe wrote:
Absolutely perfect for what I wanted. I do get a warning that some values may be incorrect because of "errors scanning .cache/dconf and .cache/dconf/SkypeforLinux/SkypeRT folders some directory sizes may not be correct". ncdu gives the same sizes as the DiskUsage GUI. I did find that all of my photos were copied into ~/.PlayOnLinux/Wineprefix. This is incredibly weird and I can only think Shotwell copied them to that directory. There are at least similar situations with other directories though not pix. This requires some investigation.
On 7/29/19 7:25 PM, Akkana Peck wrote:
Brian O'Keefe writes:
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?
ncdu is great for tracking down disk hogs. It uses ncurses so it doesn't need X to be running.
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ncdu is probably the answer you're looking for. Or the du -h piped to a file might be a more detailed view of all the files. When I wanted to use a GUI application, I've always used QDirStat. Usually I can apt install it on recent Ubuntu releases. And never had an issue with inaccuracy. If you see any inaccuracies, you really should file a bug report. I am curious to know which program you were using... I'm also curious to know if the Wine bottles are in-fact that large. I could add more information to the write up I did on installing and using Wine. I looked at the expandability of that laptop. It looks like you can add a 2.5" 7mm height hard drives. So any 2 TB spinning disk should fit. And the NVMe drive should be upgrade-able to either an Intel 660p or a Crucial P1. The 1 TB models are around $100 on Amazon. However, upgrading the NVMe drive and RAM is *not* the easiest in world. The 2.5" drive would a bit easier to upgrade, since you don't have to lift the board. If you plan on doing any hardware upgrades to the NVMe drive, you should consider upgrading the single SO-DIMM stick to a 16 GB DDR4 SO-DIMM at the same time. Here is a video of a teardown to that model: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lyEEAZdYwo Regards, Jared On 7/29/19 6:27 PM, Brian O'Keefe wrote:
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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Hey Mars, good to see you back. I haven't heard a peep for it seems years. And du also works great for this. I will be winnowing away soon. I have my 1TB drive in my current laptop so I need to copy data to another drive I used to start the migration to the 1TB, which I sort of quit when I got the kernel issue with anything above 4.15 and my graphics going bad. Never did resolve that or I would just put the drive into the new ASUS. So now to copy important stuff to another drive, clean install on the 1TB, copy data back over. the only pain is getting my T-Bird and FF profiles correctly transferred so that I have all of their mail, addressbooks, bookmarks and history. I've done it several times but still time consuming. And thanks Jared. The GUI was the Gnome standard "Disk Use Analyzer". and you can see my email that somehow all of my 34GB of photos ended up in the `/.playonlinux directory in addition to being in my actual photos directory so there's a lot of space just there. What I'd like is to keep the 256 SSD and pare my data down and use the 1TB SSD for mass storage. I don't need all of the data to be always on the disk or I tend to just keep bloating away (thereby running an emulator of my physical condition!) Cheers Brian On 7/30/19 9:58 AM, J. Marsden DeLapp wrote:
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Congrats on the new Asus On Mon, Jul 29, 2019 at 6:27 PM Brian O'Keefe <okeefe@cybermesa.com> wrote:
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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Now the joy of migrating my email and browser data! BTW, my older ACER has decided to open directories in FF instead of Nautilus. Any idea of how to stop this bead behavior or why it started? On 8/1/19 6:04 PM, Satsangat Khalsa wrote:
Congrats on the new Asus
On Mon, Jul 29, 2019 at 6:27 PM Brian O'Keefe <okeefe@cybermesa.com <mailto:okeefe@cybermesa.com>> wrote:
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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Brian. Check "Properties" of a directory. If "open with" is not what you expect you can change it there. Ted P. On Sat, Aug 3, 2019, 8:14 AM Brian O'Keefe <okeefe@cybermesa.com> wrote:
Now the joy of migrating my email and browser data! BTW, my older ACER has decided to open directories in FF instead of Nautilus. Any idea of how to stop this bead behavior or why it started? On 8/1/19 6:04 PM, Satsangat Khalsa wrote:
Congrats on the new Asus
On Mon, Jul 29, 2019 at 6:27 PM Brian O'Keefe <okeefe@cybermesa.com> wrote:
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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Thanks Ted. I wonder why it happened? I got my email all migrated but my FF bookmarks, history, passwords are proving to be much more difficult. I have copied over my profile to no avail. I'm now going to copy my entire ~/.mozilla folder which is huge and will take much time. Hopefully though it will work. Other migrations only ever required my FF profile. Ah well Brian On 8/3/19 11:21 AM, Ted Pomeroy wrote:
Brian. Check "Properties" of a directory. If "open with" is not what you expect you can change it there. Ted P.
On Sat, Aug 3, 2019, 8:14 AM Brian O'Keefe <okeefe@cybermesa.com <mailto:okeefe@cybermesa.com>> wrote:
Now the joy of migrating my email and browser data! BTW, my older ACER has decided to open directories in FF instead of Nautilus. Any idea of how to stop this bead behavior or why it started?
On 8/1/19 6:04 PM, Satsangat Khalsa wrote:
Congrats on the new Asus
On Mon, Jul 29, 2019 at 6:27 PM Brian O'Keefe <okeefe@cybermesa.com <mailto:okeefe@cybermesa.com>> wrote:
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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Brian O'Keefe writes:
Thanks Ted. I wonder why it happened? I got my email all migrated but my FF bookmarks, history, passwords are proving to be much more difficult. I have copied over my profile to no avail. I'm now going to copy my entire ~/.mozilla folder which is huge and will take much time. Hopefully though it will work. Other migrations only ever required my FF profile.
In case you haven't already done it: you should be able to backup or export your bookmarks from the Show All Bookmarks window, then restore/import them in the new Firefox. That saves you from having to move places.sqlite which at least in my firefox profile is the lion's share of the profile's disk space. (It used to be the cache directory, which I don't see any more, so maybe that got sucked into places.sqlite too.) You still might want to copy the rest of the Firefox folder to save your preferences, extensions and so on, but they'll be small compared to places.sqlite. ...Akkana
I can give that a try. I know about the bookmarks backup and will use it if need be. I guess I can export them to a flash drive and then import them to m FF on my new laptop. This doesn't help for history or passwords though. That's why I used to just copy my profile over and all of those would be present. Now I get a new profile generated and in the "about:profiles" window I don't have and option for that profile even though it's sitting there in ~/.mozilla with the other 4 profiles that have been created! Thanks Brian On 8/3/19 5:46 PM, Akkana Peck wrote:
Brian O'Keefe writes:
Thanks Ted. I wonder why it happened? I got my email all migrated but my FF bookmarks, history, passwords are proving to be much more difficult. I have copied over my profile to no avail. I'm now going to copy my entire ~/.mozilla folder which is huge and will take much time. Hopefully though it will work. Other migrations only ever required my FF profile.
In case you haven't already done it: you should be able to backup or export your bookmarks from the Show All Bookmarks window, then restore/import them in the new Firefox. That saves you from having to move places.sqlite which at least in my firefox profile is the lion's share of the profile's disk space. (It used to be the cache directory, which I don't see any more, so maybe that got sucked into places.sqlite too.) You still might want to copy the rest of the Firefox folder to save your preferences, extensions and so on, but they'll be small compared to places.sqlite.
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OK, did it! It took almost 48 hrs. to copy ~/.mozilla and finally replace the OS version with my old one and voila! I have all of my FF everything. I even have the seriously deprecated scrapbook which has years or research data and websites and I can view them (in a seriously deprecated FF version but the last that supported scrapbook). I need to somehow deal with these as I can preserve them but with new FF versions not view them. I can run two versions of FF but that's a pain. In any case all of my history, bookmarks, scrapbook, passwords, etc. are all there. Now I need to deal with it. I don't know why copying .mozilla took so long but it is about 6.3GB but well over 1MB files! The main thing is that it worked. I hate migrating to a new drive or OS. Actually the drive is easy with dd. It's the using a new OS that creates the issues of time, after time... Thanks for all the interest. Cheers and I'll make the next meeting and bring the laptop along. Meanwhile I have lots of programs to install so that part is up to snuff. Brian On 8/3/19 5:46 PM, Akkana Peck wrote:
Brian O'Keefe writes:
Thanks Ted. I wonder why it happened? I got my email all migrated but my FF bookmarks, history, passwords are proving to be much more difficult. I have copied over my profile to no avail. I'm now going to copy my entire ~/.mozilla folder which is huge and will take much time. Hopefully though it will work. Other migrations only ever required my FF profile.
In case you haven't already done it: you should be able to backup or export your bookmarks from the Show All Bookmarks window, then restore/import them in the new Firefox. That saves you from having to move places.sqlite which at least in my firefox profile is the lion's share of the profile's disk space. (It used to be the cache directory, which I don't see any more, so maybe that got sucked into places.sqlite too.) You still might want to copy the rest of the Firefox folder to save your preferences, extensions and so on, but they'll be small compared to places.sqlite.
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You could do a "low level" format on SCSI drives and we could resurrect really malcontent hard drives like that. In someway SATA drives are supposed to have some SCSI hardware capablitiies. Does anybody know how he could do that? Anyhow, it seems like you should do surgery on that drive and reload some kind of real basic linux like Puppy till your sure it won't misbehave anymore. On Sat, Aug 3, 2019 at 8:14 AM Brian O'Keefe <okeefe@cybermesa.com> wrote:
Now the joy of migrating my email and browser data! BTW, my older ACER has decided to open directories in FF instead of Nautilus. Any idea of how to stop this bead behavior or why it started? On 8/1/19 6:04 PM, Satsangat Khalsa wrote:
Congrats on the new Asus
On Mon, Jul 29, 2019 at 6:27 PM Brian O'Keefe <okeefe@cybermesa.com> wrote:
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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Once I have migrated fully I'll either use it for mass storage or install something fun and unimportant. Manjaro looks interesting. Maybe a VM look at it. Thanks for the feedback! On 8/3/19 10:39 PM, Satsangat Khalsa wrote:
You could do a "low level" format on SCSI drives and we could resurrect really malcontent hard drives like that. In someway SATA drives are supposed to have some SCSI hardware capablitiies. Does anybody know how he could do that? Anyhow, it seems like you should do surgery on that drive and reload some kind of real basic linux like Puppy till your sure it won't misbehave anymore.
On Sat, Aug 3, 2019 at 8:14 AM Brian O'Keefe <okeefe@cybermesa.com <mailto:okeefe@cybermesa.com>> wrote:
Now the joy of migrating my email and browser data! BTW, my older ACER has decided to open directories in FF instead of Nautilus. Any idea of how to stop this bead behavior or why it started?
On 8/1/19 6:04 PM, Satsangat Khalsa wrote:
Congrats on the new Asus
On Mon, Jul 29, 2019 at 6:27 PM Brian O'Keefe <okeefe@cybermesa.com <mailto:okeefe@cybermesa.com>> wrote:
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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