My ~500GB SSD doesn't "feel" like it's 90+% full. Those big files, which are mostly files for a few VMs and Doom: The Dark Ages, don't look like they would take up more than 200GB. Apparently this is a "death of a thousand cuts" situation. So the question is, what can I do about it, besides deleting the VMs
re-encode your porn with hevc so it takes up less spaceI saved 100 GB recently by doing this
>>1553507>hiberfil.sysDisable hibernation. That'll save you 24GB by getting rid of hiberfil.sys. Not only do you not need this with an SSD (a cold boot is fast enough), it's even detrimental (due to wasting write cycles every time you use it).>Virdual Disk ImageShrink you VDI files:https://superuser.com/questions/529149/how-to-compact-virtualboxs-vdi-file-size>STREAMDBDunno what that is, but it looks sus.>Windows Installer Patch/PackageRun Disk Cleanup in C: properties.
>>1553507>~500GBMaybe you should show us that drive then because 398 GB is approximately 400 GB not 500 GB. If that 398 GB were really GiB not GB the drive would still only be 428 GB not approximately 500 GB.>"feel"That program doesn't care about your feelings.>Those big files don't look like they would take up more than 200GB.It's reporting 270 GB for games and user files, most of which look like the VD images so to me it looks exactly like they would take up more than 200 GB. That you "feel" like it should 200 GB or less when the program is reporting 270 GB is evidence that your wetware based feelings are out of touch with reality.>what can I do about itWhat can you do about what? About your feelings being out of whack?See a cognitive psychologist.Stop using non-prescription psychoactive drugs.Start hanging around with "left brained" people who deal with facts and learn from them. Don't try to turn them into pot smoking hippies who need to be more in touch with their feelings.Start listing facts on paper, including the fact "I feel like it shouldn't be 200+ GB". Then cross that fact out with red ink and write in big letters "This doesn't matter because it is contrary to objective evidence". The fact that you have that feeling is irrelevant to the situation as your feeling is very poor evidence of a potential problem with the software.Start acting more like pic related.>besides deletingIf your goal is to have more free space on the drive, there's only one way to gain free space on a normally functioning drive. Occasionally I've seen issues with windows drives not releasing space with system files or deleted files not being marked as free space but nothing in your image points to that.
Don't forget your system restore settings are probably gobbling up a shit ton of space because Windows updates all the time... It would create restore points before doing this usually. Same with software installations. Anyhow it's probably set pretty high and using lots of space on your SSD.
>>1553529>Disable hibernation.I could have sworn the "spinning circle" phase of booting takes longer if I do that. Might be worth doing anyway>Shrink you VDI files:I just shrunk my Ubuntu VM and it's still 30-40 GB. From Disk Usage Analyzer, that is also mostly from a few Wine prefixes and possibly another "death of a thousand cuts", but that might be a separate thread.Come to this about it, maybe I could nuke one of my Arch VMs that is ~12GB. The only reason I keep that around is to get to the bottom of why VirtualBox doesn't handle KDE's fading effects properly>STREAMDBThat would be from Doom: The Dark Ages IIRC>Run Disk Cleanup in C: properties.Might be worth looking into
