“Most of us use our hard disks like closets, stuffing in files
and then forgetting about them. But no matter how big a disk you
have, it’s going to run out of free space one day, and running out
of disk space during an OpenOffice.org install or a system update
could hurt you badly. Keeping an eye on disk usage doesn’t take
much time or effort. Here are some tips and tools.“Some distributions set up cron jobs that warn you when disk
usage exceeds a certain percentage. But when your usage gets
flagged as high, it’s deciding what goes and what stays that takes
time…”
Linux.com: Disk Usage Analysis and Cleanup Tools
By
Mayank Sharma
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