bismillah..

***** UPDATE *****

Ternyata solusinya adalah uninstall Tracker. Tadi pagi kehabisan space lagi. Tracker dodol.

http://lduros.net/posts/tracker-sucks-thanks-tracker/

***** END UPDATE *****

At first, my space ran out quite often… I thought it was because of caching or downloaded data… So.. this morning I cleaned up my stuffs and spared around 4GB of space.

A moment later… my space ran out again leaving only 1.1 GB.. something was wrong I thought…..

Browsing my folders… I found in cache folder a 12.5 GB space taken in one folder.. “tracker”.

This was huuuge…

So.. checking with ps -def in terminal, I discovered 3 processes… related to tracker.

Googled a while, Here is the guidance to disable and reclaim the space:

http://askubuntu.com/questions/346211/tracker-store-and-tracker-miner-fs-eating-up-my-cpu-on-every-startup

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What does these processes do?

Tracker is a synergy of technologies that are designed to provide a highly sophisticated, innovative and integrated desktop.

Tracker provides the following:

• Indexer for desktop search (for more details see this spec :https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IntegratedDesktopSearch)
• Tag database for doing keyword tagging of any object
• Extensible metadata database for apps like gedit and rhythmbox which need to add custom metadata to files
• Database for first class objects allows using tracker’s database for storage and implementation of First Class Objects and the Gnome 3.0 Model.

How to get rid of processes?

1. Disabling tracker for globally (for all users)
   1. Edit /etc/xdg/autostart/trackerd.desktop file with root privileges (sudo -i gedit /etc/xdg/autostart/trackerd.desktop)
   2. Add Hidden=true to the end of the file
   3. Do the same for /etc/xdg/autostart/tracker-applet.desktop if you want
2. Disabling tracker for your user only

   1. Enter the directory ~/.config/autostart, create it if it does not exist

   2. Create a file named trackerd.desktop

   3. Paste the following into the file, save and exit:

      [Desktop Entry] Encoding=UTF-8 Name=Tracker Hidden=true

Source: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Tracker

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Restarted the system and execute: tracker-control -r

Voila… 12.5 GB available..

This is actually hilarious… how could this be happening with the infamous Ubuntu… :S

well.. at least I’m good for now.

See you.. bye.