Re: High disk usage
Pelle Windestam via evolution-list <[email protected]>
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On Mon, 2022-10-10 at 09:59 -0500, Greg Oliver via evolution-list wrote: > On Mon, Oct 10, 2022 at 5:46 AM Pelle Windestam via evolution-list > <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mon, 2022-10-10 at 11:36 +0200, Milan Crha via evolution-list wrote: > > > On Mon, 2022-10-10 at 10:55 +0200, Pelle Windestam via evolution-list > > > wrote: > > > > when I by accident looked at my "System Monitor" tool I noticed that > > > > it was writing huge amounts of data to my disk. > > > > > > Hi, > > > does it report what file it is? Is the file itself such large, or so > > > much data is written during the say, keeping the file relatively small? > > > Being it about mail file, do you receive many mails each day? > > > Bye, > > > Milan > > > > > > > No, unfortunately not. I shows open files, but not how much that it has > > written > > to each specific one. > > > > I do not receive many mails at all, maybe 20 per day or so. Mostly without > > attachments, and in any case the attachments would be small. > > > > //Pelle > > > > > Without knowing where your evolution files reside - do not use Manjaro, you > can go into the directories and run this command. Largest files will be at > the bottom: > > find . -type f -exec du -b {} \; | sort -n > _______________________________________________ > evolution-list mailing list > [email protected] > To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list It looks like it stores data in ~/.cache/evolution (lots of mails here it seems) and also in ~/.local/share/evolution. Nothing big under ~/.local/share/evolution, about 18 files and the largest one is about 73 kB. ~/.cache/evolution is another story, lots of big files here. I do have quite a lot of archived mails in my private account, probably several GB, but those were downloaded to my computer a long time ago. Could the fact that there are lots of e-mails there be causing this? //Pelle _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list [email protected] To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list