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.
2 outlets in our directory ran this story, first to last over 28 hours. All of the coverage we found sits in one bucket: centre. That one-sidedness is itself worth noticing.
- ▪ Your harddrive is probably full — Lobsters
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| Original publisher | marginalia.nu |
| Canonical URL | https://www.marginalia.nu/log/a_139_hdd/ |
| Publication time | Sat, 25 Jul 2026 13:19:08 -0500 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-07-27T00:52:44.880Z |
| Last seen | 2026-07-27T00:52:44.880Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | IV58ldv5nkph · 3 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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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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