{"id":12556,"date":"2026-07-23T19:48:23","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T00:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=12556"},"modified":"2026-09-20T13:51:45","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T18:51:45","slug":"fedora-disk-cleanup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=12556","title":{"rendered":"Fedora: Disk Cleanup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Useful commands for disk cleanup &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Subfolder size excluding specific folders<\/p>\n<pre>[root@FVP05 ~]# du -shx --exclude=\/mnt --exclude=\/proc \/*\r\n0 \/afs\r\n0 \/bin\r\n312M \/boot\r\n2.1M \/ca\r\n8.0K \/cacert.pem\r\n4.0K \/careq.pem\r\n0 \/certs\r\n0 \/crl\r\n0 \/dev\r\n48M \/etc\r\n37M \/home\r\n0 \/lib\r\n0 \/lib64\r\n0 \/media\r\n0 \/newcerts\r\n0 \/openhab\r\n954M \/opt\r\n4.0K \/private\r\n457M \/root\r\n1.2M \/run\r\n120K \/SampleCode\r\n0 \/sbin\r\n0 \/srv\r\n0 \/swapfile\r\n0 \/sys\r\n227M \/tmp\r\n8.2G \/usr\r\n14G \/var<\/pre>\n<p>List the largest n RPM installs<\/p>\n<p>[root@FVP05 ~]# rpm -qa &#8211;qf &#8216;%{SIZE}\\t%{NAME}\\n&#8217; | sort -nr | head -10<\/p>\n<pre>488208897 azure-cli\r\n248737290 java-latest-openjdk-headless\r\n238259971 glibc-all-langpacks\r\n182326049 mesa-vulkan-drivers\r\n147275895 llvm-libs\r\n127750222 gcc\r\n106627293 kernel-core\r\n106091788 kernel-core\r\n105915244 nvidia-gpu-firmware\r\n105470864 kernel-modules<\/pre>\n<p>And clean up the journal logs<\/p>\n<pre>journalctl --vacuum-size=100M<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Useful commands for disk cleanup &#8230; Subfolder size excluding specific folders [root@FVP05 ~]# du -shx &#8211;exclude=\/mnt &#8211;exclude=\/proc \/* 0 \/afs 0 \/bin 312M \/boot 2.1M \/ca 8.0K \/cacert.pem 4.0K \/careq.pem 0 \/certs 0 \/crl 0 \/dev 48M \/etc 37M \/home 0 \/lib 0 \/lib64 0 \/media 0 \/newcerts 0 \/openhab 954M \/opt 4.0K \/private 457M &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[2229,294],"class_list":["post-12556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-system-administration","tag-disk-utilization","tag-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12556"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12557,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12556\/revisions\/12557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}