Duplicate files

[Nils Kassube]

Steven Vollom wrote:
> > steven at YESHUA:~$ df -h
> > Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> > /dev/sda2              19G   12G  6.1G  66% /
> > tmpfs                 3.9G     0  3.9G   0% /lib/init/rw
> > varrun                3.9G  308K  3.9G   1% /var/run
> > varlock               3.9G     0  3.9G   0% /var/lock
> > udev                  3.9G  120K  3.9G   1% /dev
> > tmpfs                 3.9G   88K  3.9G   1% /dev/shm
> > lrm                   3.9G  2.7M  3.9G   1%
> > /lib/modules/2.6.28-11-server/volatile
> > /dev/sda5             230G  129G   89G  60% /home
> > /dev/sda6             204G  188M  193G   1% /home/backup
> > steven at YESHUA:~$
>
> /dev/sda2 is my OS, is that correct?

Yes.

> Does it grow as I add 
> applications, or are they put in one of the other storage areas? 

New applications are put here (sda2).

> tmpsf is still on the boot partition, isn't it?  It shows as
> completely usable, in fact varrun, varlock, udev, tmpfs, and lrm
> really don't have much in any of them.  Is 23+gb necessary for the
> functions they provide?

Only those lines which begin with "/dev" are relevant. The other lines 
are for virtual file systems which are in memory. Just ignore them.

> When I noticed that of the 50 gb of space that I allocated for the
> primary boot partition only 6gb remained, I became worried that I may
> not notice as it got close to full, and I would overload the
> partition and lock things up.

Obviously there are only 19GB on your / partition, not 50GB.

> Since all the packages and applications that run anything are
> contained in my primary boot partition, and because I will continue
> to increase their numbers as I am studying and using various tools of
> a computer while I learn, I suspect that I may end up with a rather
> large group of applications that I don't often use, but contain a lot
> of space.  As I learn which of these applications have served their
> purpose in helping me to learn, I will want to remove those that
> become less useful, but I need to know the ones that are long-term
> important, and I don't accidentally want to overload the partition
> and create a failure.

Well, 19GB is quite a lot of space for system files. You won't get in 
trouble too soon, I suppose. But we don't know which applications are 
long-term useful for you. That is something you have to find out 
yourself. However if you uninstall packages just make sure you keep the 
package "kubuntu-desktop" installed. That will ensure that your system 
is usable. If you uninstall other packages and you find out later that 
you uninstalled the wrong one, you can reinstall it.


Nils