Ever wonder where all your disk space is going? You're not the only one.
Lately I've been looking at why my home directory is so large.
I would expect my home folder to take up a fair bit of space, as between my email archives, family photos, source code and documents I've got a fair collection of stuff, but somehow the amount of space used didn't add up.
Having a hunt through the system brought up the .thumbnails directory which is used by KDE to cache thumbnail images - and contains a lot more than I expected. . . . .
du --si .thumbnails
4.1k .thumbnails/fail/gnome-thumbnail-factory
4.1k .thumbnails/fail/gimp-2.2
8.2k .thumbnails/fail
552M .thumbnails/large
2.6G .thumbnails/normal
3.2G .thumbnails
Yes, that's right, over the years I've built up 3.2G of thumbnail images! It would be nice to think that the thumbnails would expire automatically after a month or two rather than building up indefinitely.
I suppose I'll have to remember to run the following every so often:
rm -rf .thumbnails
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