Query about parasitic firefox file

[Joel Rees]

On Wed, Mar 7, 2018 at 10:42 PM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7 March 2018 at 13:00, Bret Busby <bret.busby at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>
> That's not enough for a safe, usable system these days.

If that is true, the world has truly gone mad.

> Boot off a live medium, run GParted, remove the old Debian partition,
> and extend your /home partition (or / if you don't have a separate
> /home) into the free space.
>
> For more detailed guidance, post the output of
>
> sudo sfdisk -l
>
> here.

Bret, do not just blindly delete that partition.

First, post the results of sfdisk that Liam asks for, or use gparted
to show you the equivalent so you can ask about it on-list.

There may be a reason for being unable to access the partition or
there may not. And you want to think about how to expand /home, too.

-- 
Joel Rees

One of these days I'll get someone to pay me
to design a language that combines the best of Forth and C.
Then I'll be able to leap wide instruction sets with a single #ifdef,
run faster than a speeding infinite loop with a #define,
and stop all integer size bugs with my bare cast.
http://defining-computers.blogspot.com/2017/06/reinventing-computers.html

More of my delusions:
http://reiisi.blogspot.com/2017/05/do-not-pay-modern-danegeld-ransomware.html
http://reiisi.blogspot.jp/p/novels-i-am-writing.html