I’m out of disk space and need to figure out how to free up space.

Find out how full your memory is:

df -h

I figured out which drive I wanted to check out and so knowing that I do a command like this:

sudo du -hxd1 / | sort -hr | head -n 10

I could tell something wrong based off what it told me:

416G	/
219G	/root
147G	/home
25G	/usr
17G	/var
11G	/nix
19M	/etc
1.2M	/tmp
28K	/mnt
20K	/snap

Why is /root taking up so much space? Let’s find out:

sudo du -hxd1 /root | sort -hr | head -n 10

Ah, I see it’s from an old Monero project leftover:

219G	/root
217G	/root/.bitmonero
2.0G	/root/.cache
4.2M	/root/stenc
248K	/root/.rpmdb
164K	/root/.local
100K	/root/.config
20K	/root/.dbus
16K	/root/snap
8.0K	/root/.gnupg

I can pretty much delete .bitmonero without any concern. Yes, I made sure I cleared out my wallet.

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