Why so big?

[Karl Larsen]

Chris wrote:
> On Fri, 16 May 2008 05:38:19 -0600
> Karl Larsen <k5di at zianet.com> wrote:
>
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>> steve wrote:
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>>> Rich Rudnick wrote:
>>> | steve wrote:
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>>> |> Karl Larsen wrote:
>>> |> |     I loaded this Ubuntu system with a Live CD which was close
>>> to 700 |> | MBytes. It has been updated a lot and is the Gutsy
>>> version. I was just |> | checking and the hard drive has
>>> |> |
>>> |> |     6,796,024,000 Bytes now! It is getting bigger every day. I
>>> wonder if
>>> |> | it will end?
>>> |> |
>>> |> | Karl
>>> |> |
>>> |>
>>> |>
>>> |> If im not mistaken the base install size is in the vicinity of
>>> 2gb, your |> closer to 7.  you install extra stuff, LAMP, KDE, etc?
>>> |>
>>> |>
>>> |
>>> | You can get a pretty good idea of where your disk space is going
>>> with | baobab .
>>> |
>>> |
>>> wow. learn something new every day, wonder who in the world thought
>>> up that vague name......gotta be  nik or acronym for
>>> something....... what........ i have NO idea lol
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> - --
>>> Steve Reilly
>>>
>>> http://reillyblog.com
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>>     I discovered this was right under my nose but never used. It is 
>> located at Applications - Disk Usage Analyser. Now using it I am 
>> confused by what it says.  It says that my load of version 7.10 is
>> very wasteful of disk space. For example it says my system is 2.5 GB
>> and very poor disk usage.
>>
>>     But I used the old df and got this:
>>
>> Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
>> /dev/hda8              9187068   6795608   1924776  78% /
>>
>> This I wrote as 6795608000 bytes, and it is 6.8 GB. It appears that
>> df is wrong.
>>
>>
>> Karl
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> I find that using df -h helps to remove errors in my readings :)
>
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karl at karl-desktop:~$ df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda8             8.8G  6.4G  2.0G  76% /


I agree, but there is no error in my reading you see :-)


Karl


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