<html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> On 15/04/12 14:23, Isak Enström wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:CAMc4Yw8s7J8yiOzm_c4FLut-FcmiWHJYz50FvvriR3CE1pp=kQ@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"> <div class="gmail_quote">Den 15 april 2012 15:08 skrev Sid Boyce <<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:sboyce@blueyonder.co.uk">sboyce@blueyonder.co.uk</a>>: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> On 15/04/12 13:00, <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:kubuntu-users-request@lists.ubuntu.com" target="_blank">kubuntu-users-request@lists.ubuntu.com</a> wrote: <div> <div class="h5"> Â Today's Topics: 1. Re: how to improve home disk space (Waleed Hamra) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2012 03:20:26 +0300 From: Waleed Hamra <<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:kubuntu-users@whamra.com" target="_blank">kubuntu-users@whamra.com</a>> To: <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:kubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com" target="_blank">kubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Subject: Re: how to improve home disk space Message-ID: <<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:4F8A144A.7020404@whamra.com" target="_blank">4F8A144A.7020404@whamra.com</a>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" On 04/15/2012 02:25 AM, Steve Morris wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> On 08/04/12 21:56, Rajubhai Ramvani wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> dear sir, Â Â Â when i upgrade any programme the massage is desplaying (disk space full) or (low disk space). so how can we improve disk space so in future we not want this type massage. i know the we can do this by home folder empty.but what is proper solution.anybody can help me. rajuramvani. </blockquote> Hi, Â Â If we assume you only have one partition for Kubuntu, you could check the /tmp and /home/%userid%/tmp directories to see how much space is used in those and delete the contents, which may or may not release a fair amount of disk space. Linux is like windows, by default it doesn't clear temp directories, although having said this some distributions allocate /temp to a ram disk to simulate emptying at shutdown. If your Kubuntu is doing this there should be an entry in /etc/fstab assigning /tmp to tempfs. regards, Steve </blockquote> on the contrary, /etc/init/mounted-tmp.conf would tell you otherwise, the /tmp directory is deleted on every boot, regardless of mount type :) as for OP, it would be greatly helpful if you would type the following command in a terminal, and tell us the output: df -h that is assuming you do read this list, which i'm starting to doubt :\ </blockquote> </div> </div> In the days of small disks I could see the need for separate hard drives and partitions for the likes of /home, /usr etc. With the availability of large hard drives it seemed pointless and even Solaris went away from the practice and assigned just / and swap. I have a small /boot partition on some systems dating back to when you needed to boot from sectors below 1024 and on some just / and swap. If I do a fresh install and I need to reformat / I'll tar up /home and save it for restoration later. Sometimes doing a fresh install without reformatting on systems that are way too downlevel to successfully upgrade also leaves /home unaffected. My setups are normally just / and swap. If I do an upgrade /home remains untouched. Some have said that there could be a problem if something bad happens to / but over many years the only time that has happened was when bad on-board IDE controllers wrote garbage all over the HD which meant that /home was also affected. This happened with at least 3 motherboards going back more than 12 years. I once questioned some friends why they did separate /home, /usr, etc. partitions effectively implementing small disks out a large disk and they couldn't answer. On their systems when they ran out of space on /home meant they had to create symlinks like crazy with "mkdir /xxx", "ln -s /xxx /home/user/xxx" to overcome the problem caused by slicing and dicing. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Licensed Private Pilot Emeritus IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support Senior Staff Specialist, Cricket Coach Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks <div class="HOEnZb"> <div class="h5"> -- kubuntu-users mailing list <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:kubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com" target="_blank">kubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-users</a> </div> </div> </blockquote> </div> <div> </div> <div>Having /home on a separate partition is good in case you need to reinstall or upgrade. / doesn't have to be more than 15 GB in most cases, so it's not like the /home partition will run out of space unless the HDD is really small. ~~ Isak __ Powered by Ubuntu -Â <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.ubuntu.com/" target="_blank">www.ubuntu.com</a> </div> </blockquote> Or unless you don't do much or keep much. On this box 1TB drive for / and a 500GB drive for backups. > du -sh /home 42G /home > du -sh .thunderbird 18G .thunderbird On another box with two 2TB HD's. # du -sh /home 277G /home You can see how difficult it would be to guage the length of the piece of string for /home. Who know what they will require in a year's time. As you can see using even 30GB for /home would be useless on my boxes. Regards Sid. <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Licensed Private Pilot Emeritus IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support Senior Staff Specialist, Cricket Coach Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks </pre> </body> </html>