Query about parasitic firefox file

[Bret Busby]

On 07/03/2018, Karl Auer <kauer at biplane.com.au> wrote:
> On Wed, 2018-03-07 at 17:08 +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
>> In the last 12 hours, 1.4GB of my home directory free space
>> disappeared, rendering the system unusable.
>
> If the loss of 1.4Gb renders your system unusable, you definitely need
> more disk space. Time for a new hard disk or some housecleaning.
>
> Regards, K
>

It is an old (Dell Inspiron 580) i3 system, limited to 16GB RAM and (I
believe) limited to a  (about) 500GB HDD, of which, about 250GB is
locked by MS Win (7or XP - not sure which).

When Ubuntu 18.04.1 is released, I will review my systems and their builds.

I had removed an earlier OS - Debian 6, including reformatting the
partition, but, now, can not write to it, so, apart from a HDD
restructure, I do not have much free space left - about (now) 1.7GB.

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Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia

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 Chapter 28 of Book 1 of
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