Calculating the size of /

[Jim Byrnes]

On 09/11/2012 01:26 PM, Colin Law wrote:
> On 11 September 2012 19:22, Jim Byrnes <jf_byrnes at comcast.net> wrote:
>> On 09/11/2012 12:03 PM, PleegWat wrote:
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>>> On 09/11/2012 06:01 PM, Jim Byrnes wrote:
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>>>> Yes if I start the Disk Usage Analyzer with gksu.  Here's a
>>>> screenshot of what I see:
>>>>
>>>> http://s12.postimage.org/9bmvoz125/Disk_Usage_Analyzer.png
>>>>
>>>> The one on the left is started from the Applications menu and the
>>>> one the right is started with gksu.  If I start nautilus with gksu
>>>> in root I see the Desktop folder with 0 itmes and
>>>> gparted_details.htm from 2 years ago.  Free space is reported as
>>>> 151.4GB.
>>>>
>>>> At this point I don't know which one, if any, to believe.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,  Jim
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Any directories or files whose name starts with a period (.) is a
>>> hidden directory or file which will not be visible by default. In
>>> nautilus, in the 'View' menu, click 'Show Hidden Files' to make these
>>> visible.
>>
>>
>> This is how I have nautilus setup.
>>
>>
>>> The directory displayed as 'Home' in nautilus when started with gksu
>>> is root's home directory, not yours, and will have different contents.
>>
>>
>> I didn't know it had one.  This clears up some of the confusion I mentioned
>> to Colin in another message.
>>
>> So can you tell me why the contents of /root shown by gksu nautilus and
>> /root shown by gksu baobab are so different.
>
> Can you not see .local in /root in gksu nautilus if you show hidden
> files (ctrl-H)?
>
> Colin
>

Yes I can, sorry for being so dense.  I have nautilus setup to display 
hidden files as the default, so I mistakenly assumed gksu nautilus would 
pickup those setting, my bad.

@PleegWat this must be what you were trying to get me to realize in your 
message, sorry for not picking up on it.

Two final questions.

Can I safely delete anything under /root/.local/share/Trash?  I would 
like to get that 28GB back as usable space.

Where would be a good place to start reading about what goes in the 
various folders under /root and why?

Thanks,  Jim