wahlau's online hut

well, not really my home, but my ~/. recently i keep running into "low space" on my ~/ (home directory on my Ubuntu notebook). This would not be a problem if you have not put home in a single partition... or a very large partition. besides my 2GB Email, i still have some work related stuffs. I made a quick search, and realise from what i see i should have more space than i see (those dummy select folders, then click on properties moves).

Today while i was trying to play with beagle, i accidentally start Baobab, a tool that will scan and display harddisk space usage/utilization. I realise i have a directory ./thumbnails that has now a whooping 400+MB! i suddenly realized that could have been the nautilus thumbnail storage folder... and it must have been collecting thumbnails of all what-so-ever from day 1! being lazy, i went on to delete them, erm, manually. Guess what, even rm * will not work properly because of the multitude of the files :)

right after clearing things up, i went on to search for ways to remove thumbnails data efficiently. wala! i found this from Carthik's Ubuntu blog. so now this line is gonna come in handy when i need space...

find ~/.thumbnails -type f -atime +7 -exec rm {} \;

change 7 to other values, if you want to have data newer or older than 7 days to be removed. For those who are lazy to execute the commands, you can write it in a bash script like i did, and put somewhere to execute at later time. to do this, read the instructions from Carthik, and comments from his blog's visitors.

now back to work :)

update 13.11.2006:
beagle ended up also chewing up my precious home space... and it is not the index that is demanding, but the Log data... anyone has an idea how to reduce beagled's log messages?