{"id":1402,"date":"2009-10-06T22:30:16","date_gmt":"2009-10-06T18:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/2009\/10\/filelight-rocks\/"},"modified":"2009-10-06T22:30:16","modified_gmt":"2009-10-06T18:30:16","slug":"filelight-rocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/2009\/10\/filelight-rocks\/","title":{"rendered":"Filelight rocks"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of my favourite utilities is filelight. Filelight helps you identify the big consumers in your filesystem, it can help you answer the question what’s eating your harddisk, and it does so very efficiently. Just today, I had, on my root partition, far too little free space. I knew I had quite some GB left, but got a disk full warning. First reaction: “WTF?!”, second reaction: fire up filelight to find the offender. Filelight quickly showed me that about one third of my root partition had vanished in \/var\/log, and in four files to be precise. A quick <\/p>\n

echo -n > logfile.log<\/span><\/pre>\n
 and hitting “rescan” on filelight showed the problem was solved. (Solved for now, I still need to check what made my logfiles blow up like this in only a matter of days. Filelight is one of those applications where I, as someone who tends to look very critical at software, just think “it’s finished”<\/em>. It’s a small, rather self-contained utility that does one job very well: analyse space consumers on your filesystem. Thanks Max and Martin for bringing this wonderful utility onto my desktop. It’s a real pleasure to work with (of course the rainbow color mode is my favourite).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
One of my favourite utilities is filelight. Filelight helps you identify the big consumers in your filesystem, it can help you answer the question what’s eating your harddisk, and it does so very efficiently. Just today, I had, on my root partition, far too little free space. I knew I had quite some GB left,… Continue reading Filelight rocks<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kde"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}