It's not just hard drive problem. If you buy a new storage rack at your home, it will be full in no time. No matter how many racks you buy, you will always find things fill those racks. This is like rain water filling up the lakes. if there is a lake, it gets filled. Or maybe it is called a lake because it gets filled. So, one can say that the disks create or cause the data. If there is no disk, there is no data.
Harddrive Is Probably Full
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#42Mine is mostly full and it's not stuff I've saved but stuff software has stored there without asking me. It's quite hard to figure what's going on. I once got a message from Chrome saying it couldn't go on because it had stored like 200gb for websites, would I like to delete it all, and I said yes and noticed no difference.
It's annoying because I'd rather store say family photos than have it full of random junk that means nothing to me. Dunno the answer - better os control? Partition the drive?
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#43Asked Claude to look at my full disk. Thought for 1 minute It found 114GB of Hugging Face models, 17GB worth of models in an obscure app I tested once. In places I would've never thought to look. I'd never have never found these myself. Problem solved. For now!
> 20+ years of software engineering experience across full-stack, backend, infrastructure, Site Reliability Enigneering, and AI engineering. Past work includes Uber, Airbnb, Canva, and a wide variety of startups - several of which I co-founded.
> I'd never have never found these myself.
You are either the most experienced most incompetent software engineer in the world, or you are lying.
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#44If you're on Windows, WizTree ( https://diskanalyzer.com/ ) is great for figuring out what's consuming your storage space. On Linux/macOS you can use `du` from the command line (or ask an AI to make a convenience wrapper for you).
I've been using SpaceMonger (220 KB) since... Win95 I think.
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#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have one single video game I play that takes up around 650GB, so I have a dedicated drive for it. And between 1 and 2 TB of movies, TV, and photos. Everything else is ephemeral/scratch space for whatever I'm working on. I used to be into amateur movie making and editing, and back then I needed many TB of space for the stuff I pulled off my cameras before it got edited down.
What video game!? I've seen games that reach up to the already crazy number of 100gb, but I usually just don't install those, with few exceptions
One of the popular flight simulators. Earth terrain data takes up a huge amount of space.
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#46... and It is ok. I bought 16TB disk because I needed that much storage. If I were using, say, only 10TB, I would be wasting 6TB. I can expand my LVM as much as I can. But I definitely want my disk to be full. Same goes for my RAM. And I want my CPU ide time to stay as close as possible to 0% and my load average as close as possible to my no. of CPUs. Anything else would mean oversizing and overspending.
Somehow I get the sense that you don't shoot for a balance of $0 in your bank account.
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#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
I just ran it for the first time... I've run windirstat many times including in the last two weeks and yes, this is very fast. According to its timing it took 3.63 seconds to scan my drive... I'm not sure if it really took almost 3 minutes for windirstat, but it did take a long time, so it's plausible. More importantly, ~ 4 seconds is much easier to wait for.
windirstat currently doesn't take 3min to index 500k+ files on an 8x8tb drive raidz2 that's 90% full. When I stopped using windoratat 3ish years ago it took a few minutes to index the same array. I think you might he using an old version, or have an issue with your storage.
I'm running it now... it is an old version 1.1.2.80, but it didn't tell me there's an update, and the functionality I need stayed the same, so why would I update?
It took almost 5 minutes and reports almost 2M items, 1.45M files and 465k subdirs...
I don't know that there's anything wrong with my disk, windirstat has always been slow when I ran it on my windows installation. Since it doesn't cheat, it goes slow. I will say, while it was reading, task manager showed a high read rate and a high write rate, and I dunno why, it's Windows (10); not that going through a convoluted filesystem is particularly fast anywhere else.
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#48... and It is ok. I bought 16TB disk because I needed that much storage. If I were using, say, only 10TB, I would be wasting 6TB. I can expand my LVM as much as I can. But I definitely want my disk to be full. Same goes for my RAM. And I want my CPU ide time to stay as close as possible to 0% and my load average as close as possible to my no. of CPUs. Anything else would mean oversizing and overspending.
Somehow I get the sense that you don't shoot for a balance of $0 in your bank account.
If my plans is to have it all invested (or spent), then yes it is ok.