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[Steven Vollom]

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> tmpfs stands for Temporary file system
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tmpfs) and don't use any space on your
> hard disks, it uses your RAM and grove dynamical and it at will most
> use half of your RAM (8/2=4Gb).
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Thanks for the lesson.  It helped in a way I did not expect.  I believe 
the information from the wiki will be useful for me soon.  I had 
questions I did not know how to ask about thoughts on this subjects a 
while ago.  I still am unable to sort it out, but am finally connecting 
the dots a bit.  Thanks again.  Apparently I got two pieces of advice 
about / partition size, because I remembered setting it up at 50gb.  
Someone I know better must have said that was too much.  Even finding 
that out is important.  I have been thinking wrong, and when I saw the 
virtual memory entries, my mind accepted that as the additional space 
from the 50gb I thought was used.  So many times in Linux, I will see a 
partition quantity different in different locations in the computer.  
Same with remainder space.  I have come to not trust the places where 
size of partition is noted and just considered the number as close.

As I recall, in Gutsey, Disk&Filesystems would show one amount, and 
Dolphin would show another.  I never knew which one to believe.  
Currently I have plazmoid on my desktop that shows usage, but I remain 
unconvinced it is accurate.  If I am not talking screwey right now, and 
capacities differ  as mentioned, what entry is most accurate when 
considering unused partition space?
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>> 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.  I am
>> getting older and my personal RAM, that that is in my brain, is starting
>> to fail.
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> You have to use your common sense to what package you can remove. If
> you in Adept or Synaptic marking the package you want to remove and it
> want to remove a lot of others to that looks like they belong to the
> OS ask on the list and I'm sure someone can answer if it's safe to
> remove it.
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Does this mean I should inquire every time I want to remove a package I 
have installed.  I have removed and reinstalled both Wine and e-Sword a 
couple of times trying to get them to work; I am unable to understand 
all instructions about configuration sometimes and apply what seems 
logical to me, which isn't always that logical, I guess, but I still 
don't have a properly working e-Sword; it would be nice to have it 
working again.  I miss my daily read.  Thanks Jonas.

Steven
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