Query about parasitic firefox file

[Bret Busby]

On Wed, 7 Mar 2018, Liam Proven wrote:

> Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2018 21:42:54
> From: Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com>
> Reply-To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions"
>     <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions"
>     <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Subject: Re: Query about parasitic firefox file
> 
> 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.
>
> 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.
>

Whilst it was not requested, here is this;

"
:~$ df -h
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev            7.8G     0  7.8G   0% /dev
tmpfs           1.6G  9.5M  1.6G   1% /run
/dev/sda5        24G   11G   12G  48% /
tmpfs           7.8G   97M  7.7G   2% /dev/shm
tmpfs           5.0M  4.0K  5.0M   1% /run/lock
tmpfs           7.8G     0  7.8G   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/sda13       55G   51G  1.2G  98% /home
cgmfs           100K     0  100K   0% /run/cgmanager/fs
tmpfs           1.6G   56K  1.6G   1% /run/user/1000
/dev/sr1        884K  884K     0 100% /media/bret/HP Launcher
/dev/sdb1       466G   14G  452G   3% /media/bret/hp hard drive1
/dev/sda9        77G   73G  884K 100% /media/bret/Data01
/dev/sda10       77G   73G  4.5M 100% /media/bret/Data02
/dev/sda12       37G   35G  7.2M 100% /media/bret/Data03
/dev/sda14       68G   64G  6.1M 100% /media/bret/Data04
/dev/sda6       9.5G   23M  9.0G   1% /media/bret/Data05-10GB
/dev/sda8        77G   73G  348K 100% 
/media/bret/a3074725-349d-4647-8b07-3a5526f7ee55
/dev/sda11       40G   40G  8.6M 100% /media/bret/41B78C85772DD3E4
"

Note, that is after the particular file was deleted, which freed up 
about 1.7GB of the home partition, and, after subsequent downloads.

The partition with the label Data05-10GB is the ex-Debian6 OS partition, 
to which I wanted to shift some data, to free up more space in the home 
partition.

The output of the sfdisk (I first ran it as fdisk) comand, follows;

"
:~$ sudo sfdisk -l
[sudo] password for bret:
Disk /dev/sda: 596.2 GiB, 640135028736 bytes, 1250263728 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0xc0000000

Device     Boot      Start        End    Sectors   Size Id Type
/dev/sda1               63     144584     144522  70.6M de Dell Utility
/dev/sda2           145408   18204671   18059264   8.6G  7 
HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda3         18204672  182369879  164165208  78.3G  7 
HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda4        182369941 1250258624 1067888684 509.2G  5 Extended
/dev/sda5        182369943  231951974   49582032  23.7G 83 Linux
/dev/sda6        349140708  369620991   20480284   9.8G 83 Linux
/dev/sda7        512971578  598692280   85720703  40.9G 82 Linux swap / 
Solaris
/dev/sda8        676818513  840665384  163846872  78.1G 83 Linux
/dev/sda9        840665448 1004496254  163830807  78.1G 83 Linux
/dev/sda10      1004496318 1168343189  163846872  78.1G 83 Linux
/dev/sda11      1168343253 1250258624   81915372  39.1G  7 
HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda12       598693888  676816895   78123008  37.3G 83 Linux
/dev/sda13       231952384  349138943  117186560  55.9G 83 Linux
/dev/sda14       369623040  512970751  143347712  68.4G 83 Linux

Partition table entries are not in disk order.




Disk /dev/sdb: 465.1 GiB, 499405291520 bytes, 975400960 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x000f8373

Device     Boot Start       End   Sectors   Size Id Type
/dev/sdb1        2048 975400959 975398912 465.1G  7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
"



--
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
..............

"So once you do know what the question actually is,
  you'll know what the answer means."
- Deep Thought,
   Chapter 28 of Book 1 of
   "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
   A Trilogy In Four Parts",
   written by Douglas Adams,
   published by Pan Books, 1992
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