Your harddrive is probably full
Posted: 2026-07-25I currently have 17 GB free space on my root drive, out of 0.47 TB usable space, that’s 3% free space.I also have an additional harddrive installed, 12 TB, it has 140 GB free, which may seem a lot but it’s actually only about 1%.Your harddrive is probably pretty full too. Maybe not as crammed, but odds are it’s probably closer to full than empty. They are still mostly occupied.Software exists for the task of identifying which files to delete when cleaning up your harddrive, and such software has existed for a long time.
- ▪Posted: 2026-07-25I currently have 17 GB free space on my root drive, out of 0.47 TB usable space, that’s 3% free space.I also have an additional harddrive installed, 12 TB, it has 140 GB free, which may seem a lot but it’s actually only ab
- ▪Maybe not as crammed, but odds are it’s probably closer to full than empty.
- ▪They are still mostly occupied.Software exists for the task of identifying which files to delete when cleaning up your harddrive, and such software has existed for a long time.
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Posted: 2026-07-25I currently have 17 GB free space on my root drive, out of 0.47 TB usable space, that’s 3% free space.I also have an additional harddrive installed, 12 TB, it has 140 GB free, which may seem a lot but it’s actually only about 1%.Your harddrive is probably pretty full too. Maybe not as crammed, but odds are it’s probably closer to full than empty. I ran a poll on mastodon and approximately half of the respondents, counting 81 people in total, had a harddrive that was more than 75% full.Pretty much every time in my life I can think of, my storage has been pretty full, to the point where I’d have to regularly find and clean up files.I’ve doubled the amount of storage space I have many times, starting at I think 80 MB in the ’90s. Now I have tens of terabytes.
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