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10th August 2012, 02:59 AM
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Lost in (disk) space!
So, here I was t'other day wondering why I had zero bytes free on my / partition on my desktop machine. I thought 14Gb for / was pretty generous seeing as my /var is on a separate partition! So, I removed some apps I that I wasn't really using to free up some space, installed K4DirStat and found the guilty party! /usr was showing 10Gb full! What!? Drilling down a little deeper I found /usr/share/games/flightgear/Aircraft was taking up a whopping 4.9Gb! Whooa!  I really don't play the game that much and only for 10 minutes at a time so it looks like I'm going to kiss it goodbye.... Or find the time to repartition my drive to give / some more space! 
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11th August 2012, 04:31 PM
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Re: Lost in (disk) space!
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I thought 14Gb for / was pretty generous seeing as my /var is on a separate partition!
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How old is that machine? My back up (spare) notebook has 40 gb of space (decade old machine). My new notebook came with a 500 gb hard drive.
Now a days, 250 gb HD's seem to be entry size on new machines. Might be time for a new HD, Wayne 
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Last edited by BBQdave; 11th August 2012 at 04:32 PM.
Reason: spare notebook is decade old
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11th August 2012, 09:00 PM
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Re: Lost in (disk) space!
He's got 14GB on the rootfs partition Dave, that's not the disk size.
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12th August 2012, 01:54 AM
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Re: Lost in (disk) space!
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He's got 14GB on the rootfs partition Dave, that's not the disk size.
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Right, I have plenty of disk space hence my comment about repartitioning. My two internal drives consist of sda 500Gb, sdb 1Tb and when switched on, my external drive (sdc) is 2Tb 
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12th August 2012, 12:38 PM
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Re: Lost in (disk) space!
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Right, I have plenty of disk space hence my comment about repartitioning. My two internal drives consist of sda 500Gb, sdb 1Tb and when switched on, my external drive (sdc) is 2Tb |
OK, OK, Just thought with 14 Gb for / that you were working with a smaller drive.
So when you start talking Tb's, I guess you have room to grow
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12th August 2012, 01:05 PM
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Re: Lost in (disk) space!
Terrabeers? Sounds good to me 
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12th August 2012, 05:09 PM
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Re: Lost in (disk) space!
If it is just that directory and you have free space else where,, could you not just move the directory to another partition and softlink?
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13th August 2012, 02:25 AM
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Re: Lost in (disk) space!
Umm, I wonder! Perhaps I can move all the aircraft data to my /home under .fgfs and softlink it as you say. Bit busy today but I'll give it a shot when I have time.
Been playing around with E17, WindowMaker and OpenBox
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Well, that seems to have worked! Ta muchly for the suggestion!
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