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Check android disk usage (and free space)

An useful open source android app to check how (by what apps or data) your device space is used, is Disky.

This “fast storage analyzer creates a pie chart of storage usage and lists folders by size”, very “intuitive and ad-free”.

I.g. yesterday, using this app I noticed that surprisingly an app (LinkToSport) was using 23 Gb.  Definitely too much 🙂.

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difference between free and available

You could have an ext4 partition with almost 70 gb free (i.g. on KDE partition manager) but only a few more than 10 gb available in Dolphin.

Indeed free and available are not the same: free means the total space (available for root), available (in Dolphin) is the space for a single user.

If that partition is not a root one (=is not /) you could do something like:

sudo tune2fs -m 1 /dev/sdxx
  • in the code above replace sdxx with the real name of your partition (you can know it, i.g. doing df -h), that is something like sdb8 or sdc6.
  • Be careful! Make sure that you have enough linux knowledge to do safely this kind of command. At your risk.

After your command, you should see that in that partition your user-available space is only 1gb less of the total space (that is 70 – 1). If your command would have been

sudo tune2fs -m 3 /dev/sdxx

Your user available space would be =70-3.