/home/karl/

[Aaron]

On 11/05/10 22:11, Karl Larsen wrote:
> On 05/11/2010 01:31 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote:
>    
>> On 11 May 2010 22:27, Karl Larsen<klarsen1 at gmail.com>   wrote:
>>
>>      
>>>       In my quest to stop using a common partition for /home/karl/ I
>>> tried to put all of /karl/ in the same partition as the one 10.04 has
>>> failed. I tried $du -h on /home/karl/ and get 33 GB :-P
>>>
>>>       This larger than the entire partition for 10.04 system. I think I
>>> need to take /home/karl/Desktop out first and then see if it will work.
>>> This IS harder than I thought.
>>>
>>>
>>>        
>> You might be able to reduce your home directory's size with a simple command:
>> $ sudo rm -R *
>>
>> NOTE: DO NOT DO THIS!!!
>> I mention it to illustrate the danger of simply blindly running
>> commands on your computer. A recent thread had a similarly dangerous
>> "solution" to a similarly simple problem.
>>
>>
>>      
>       Yes any rm -R is dangerous :-)
>
>       But the problems found will take some time to figure out. I
> discovered the files that start with a "." which are sure to be a
> necessary thing for a /home/karl/ is now 5.9 GB! This is because there
> are those from several different versions of Ubuntu. This may not be
> easy to make smaller :-(
>
>       I am going to just let it simmer overnight and try again tomorrow.
> I find now that I am 75 years old things move more slowly.
>
> 73 Karl
>
>
>    
Hi Karl

You seem to test a lot of different versions of Ubuntu (and possibly 
other distributions). Have you considered having one main install of 
Ubuntu and then use the "Virtual Machine Manager" for older or testing 
installs?

The "Virtual Machine Manager" can be installed using the Software Centre 
tool.

http://virt-manager.et.redhat.com/

I find this much more easy to manage / backup then having many different 
partitions and multiple installs.

It also makes testing more convenient. For example in about 4 months 
time I will be wanting to see what Ubuntu 10.10 will be like. So I will 
install it in a VM for testing (and later install at on my net book when 
it is beta or RC).

One exception is if you want to test certain hardware / drivers a VM 
probably will not be suitable.

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