so I’m bored
apparently the 5900X can go all the way to 19 without throttling too badly, so 

I also have enabled a dedup tool, bees  https://github.com/Zygo/bees

it uses 90% of my CPU but worth it 

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here’s how to use bees on btw i use arch:

  • sudo pacman -S bees
  • sudo cp /etc/bees/beesd.conf.sample /etc/bees/beesd.conf
  • Edit /etc/bees/beesd.conf to set UUID and DB_SIZE
  • sudo ln -s /usr/lib/systemd/system/[email protected] /usr/lib/systemd/system/beesd@$WHATEVER_THE_UUID_IS.service
  • Start(/enable) the service! 
  • …actually it might be a bit more CPU-intensive than expected
    you probably want to go with duperemove instead but I dunno block-based dedup is cooler 
    welp, bees has given me back ~100GB so far!!! :blobcatrainbow::blobcatrainbow::blobcatrainbow::blobcatrainbow::blobcatrainbow:
    πŸπŸ’—πŸˆ
    systemd-journald[453]: [πŸ‘•] Suppressed 17944 messages from beesd #a

    hmm, bees seems #stucc, guess ~125GB was all the savings it could do

    which, honestly? good job 

    fedi.xerz.one

    like this is good (and I still haven’t applied the more aggressive Zstd compression, just the default one!)
    …mind you, this is a 1TB drive 

    rebooted, haven’t noticed Zstd much at all yet… I do notice my extra GBs tho 

    guess if I finish off by cleaning up files I no longer need, I could actually get the 2TB SSD I wanted kinda 

    so, after some manual cleanup, and without uninstalling packages or doing stuff like pacman -Scc, this is the result! πŸŽ‰
    that’s a lot of giga byte free

    Hopefully this helps me to forget my storage issues (a new SSD can wait!) and focus on working instead  

    so ye, 🐝

    @xerz is this btrfs? I have a storage issue on my 256gb laptop because I dualbooted and gave Arch only 32 GB. stretching out methods to last til I get a job and buy a shiny new 512 and enclosuee for the old