Query about parasitic firefox file

[Bret Busby]

On 08/03/2018, Joel Rees <joel.rees at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>

I do not know whether it is because I ran gparted from the installed
OS rather than from a live medium, but I am prevented from doing
anything with the partition. In the menu's, operations such as Delete
(Partition) are greyed out.

I do not know, but I assume that thatis because the partition was
created with Debian 6, and so the owner of the partition, belongs to
Debian 6, and not to the UbuntuMATE OS, as, whilst the partition can
me mounted in the UbuntuMATE session, because ownership belongs to the
(now deleted) Debian 6 installation, no operationscan be performed on
the Debian 6 OS partition. I can access the Debian 6 home partition,
without any problems; reading and writing to it.

I was wrong about the MS Win usage of that HDD - that computer has MS
Win 7 (the last incarnation of MS Win, that was usable), which
occupies a partition of about 80GB - it is on this computer, that has
the horrible MS Win8, that has the (about) 250GB locked up by MS Win.

The unusable partition on that computer, is about 10GB - I shrunked
the Debian 6 OS partition, to use the unused space, for data - so it
is probaly not woth doing anything with, before restructuring the
partitions on that HDD, after Ubuntu 18.04.1 is released.

I have an external HDD connected to that computer, and, big (128GB)
USB "thumb drives are available for sometimes relatively lowish
prices(as low as 50-50AUD), si I probably need to shift data off that
HDD, to free up more space in the home partition.

The / partition is about 24GB - 11GB free, and the home partition is
about 55GB, with (now ) about 1.2GB free.

-- 
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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