$HOME
folder at work and for no apparent reason I reached that limit a couple of days back. So, there was something that had created 50K files in $HOME
and I did not know about it.Ran the following:
$ for x in `find $HOME -name "[.]*"`; do echo "$x has `find $x | wc -l` file"; done
The result listed a folder
$HOME/.thumbnails
that had around 47776 files. It appears that Nautilus creates thumbnails of every picture or PDF that you have opened. However, Nautilus does not delete the files.If you have such a restriction and need to get rid of these files, add a crob job that does deletes the files older than 7 days.
$ find ~/.thumbnails -type f -atime +7 -exec rm {} \;
Another method is to change the Gnome settings. Run the following:
$ gconf-editor
Under
desktop -> gnome -> thumbnail_cache
change the values for maximum_age
and maximum_size