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[Royden Yates <royden.yates@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Saturday, 23 January 2016 18:31:34 CET, Peter Valachovic wrote:
> On 23. 1. 2016 18:15, Royden Yates wrote:
> > On Saturday, 23 January 2016 17:51:32 CET, Peter Valachovic wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > > Is there a way to locate these "other files" on device? for me it has 
> > > over 1.3 GiB but friend of mine just sent me a screenshot with 4.1 
> > > GiB and he wants to get rid of it (reasons are obvious I guess)
> > >
> > > thanks in advance
> > >
> > > Peter V
> > >
> > > PS: great work on the OTA 8.5 on BQ5 window mode with mouse and kb is 
> > > cool :)
> > Hi,
> >
> > You can use the utility 'du' to gain information on how storage is used.
> >
> > R
> Hi,
>
> thanks Royden,
> well of course, but I wanted more to know from which folders is this 
> size computed, like "~/.cache and ... " cause when I go for 
> --max-depth=1 on /home or / no number actually match
>
> Peter V

Granted, that is true. By eliminating videos etc, one can broadly figure 
out what constitutes 'other. And yes, the OS needs do a better job with the 
category given the size to which it grows and the need to manage that.

R


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