Query about parasitic firefox file

Colin Law clanlaw at gmail.com
Thu Mar 8 20:39:49 UTC 2018


On 8 March 2018 at 20:13, Bret Busby <bret.busby at gmail.com> wrote:
> ...
> And now, having deleted the file, and, "emptied the Rubbish Bin",
> where the file was shown as being, after it was "deleted", half an
> hour later,  the 1.4GB is still not freed, so, Free space is still 0
> bytes, rendering the system unusable.
>
> I will leave it for a few hours, amnd see whether the 1.4GB, wherever
> it is hiding, evaporates, and, if it hasn't, then I suppose that I
> will have to assume that firefox v58 has corrupted the system to the
> extent that the system needs to be rebuilt.
>

No it won't have corrupted the system. It probably means something has
the file open.  Try a reboot.

However you might be better to sort out the partitions so you don't
keep getting into the situation while you sort out what the problem
is.

Colin




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