Duplicate files

[Steven Vollom]

Jens Strohschnitter wrote:
>>> Is there a consoletool like filelight ? I do not have X on my serversystems.
>>>       
>> Yes, there is, fdupes...  It helps if you read from the beginning of the
>> thread.  Also note again that I didn't recommend filelight, and in fact
>> have never used it.
>>     
>
> Thx - fdupes works very great! A little bit slow :-(
> Do you know about a tool that showes me on console folders with great volumes,
> like kdirstat or filelight ? df -h is very "rudimentary" ;-)
>
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Dear Jens,

I have so little understanding, I hope you will still help me.  I just 
opened df -h.  Here is a copy.

> steven at YESHUA:~$ df -h
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda2              19G   12G  6.1G  66% /
> tmpfs                 3.9G     0  3.9G   0% /lib/init/rw
> varrun                3.9G  308K  3.9G   1% /var/run
> varlock               3.9G     0  3.9G   0% /var/lock
> udev                  3.9G  120K  3.9G   1% /dev
> tmpfs                 3.9G   88K  3.9G   1% /dev/shm
> lrm                   3.9G  2.7M  3.9G   1% 
> /lib/modules/2.6.28-11-server/volatile
> /dev/sda5             230G  129G   89G  60% /home
> /dev/sda6             204G  188M  193G   1% /home/backup
> steven at YESHUA:~$
/dev/sda2 is my OS, is that correct?  Does it grow as I add 
applications, or are they put in one of the other storage areas?  tmpsf 
is still on the boot partition, isn't it?  It shows as completely 
usable, in fact varrun, varlock, udev, tmpfs, and lrm really don't have 
much in any of them.  Is 23+gb necessary for the functions they provide?

When I noticed that of the 50 gb of space that I allocated for the 
primary boot partition only 6gb remained, I became worried that I may 
not notice as it got close to full, and I would overload the partition 
and lock things up.

Since all the packages and applications that run anything are contained 
in my primary boot partition, and because I will continue to increase 
their numbers as I am studying and using various tools of a computer 
while I learn, I suspect that I may end up with a rather large group of 
applications that I don't often use, but contain a lot of space.  As I 
learn which of these applications have served their purpose in helping 
me to learn, I will want to remove those that become less useful, but I 
need to know the ones that are long-term important, and I don't 
accidentally want to overload the partition and create a failure.  I am 
getting older and my personal RAM, that that is in my brain, is starting 
to fail.

If you think you understand what I am trying to convey, please respond.  
And thanks for your considerable help.

Steven