[Cbsupport] Re: Why is my hdd so full?

[Ben Stringer]

Hi Avery,

Do you still have that newer PC sitting in the corner gathering dust?
You could take the harddrive out of that and put it in your linux PC?

I'm not sure if you have a budget for a second hard drive, but to give
you an idea of cost, larger capacity drives cost around $2 per gigabyte
at the moment (Eg. Seagate 80GB for $160), and smaller capacity drives
can be had second hand for $20-$30 that would allow you to keep the
applications you need without having to ditch all that valuable
software.

Eg. 3.2GB for $29
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2736890631&category=168

I'm sure the swapmeet prices would be even better.

Cheers, Ben

On Thu, 2003-06-26 at 21:06, deBrouwer&Maxwell wrote:
> Hi everyone
> 
> I had a modprobe problem and the Computer wouldn't boot
> 
> so I made an appointment with Computerbank and they used a boot disk and 
> rescue disk
> Got in and we aggreed to certain Personal Files to be remove Some packages
> and especially pictures
> 
> As they had worked very hard and the computer would boot though still 
> critical
> I  took it home to Continue to delete folders purge packages not needed 
> and install packages and purge them to remove them from the hdd
> I have debian Sid 128 mg RAM 2.3 hdd
> 
> I had tp remove Openoffice to install and purge other files abiword  and 
> koffice were already purged
> 
> I have removed --purged most Games, Galeon, Internet Packages I don't 
> use things like kalarm kcalc ksirc kpaint tuxpaint all sorts of things
> Even things that I use
> 
> It is down to 90% I might be able to Squeeae Open office back on but I 
> don't want to chance it
> I don't wqant to do a clean out of the hard drive incase there is things 
> that are not installed ok config
> and losse config files that I might need
> 
> I view var/lib/dkpg/status to find things to clear
> I have look at var/lib/dpkg/available as well
> 
> If I go kstart/system/info centre/memory and as this is constantly changing
> says for physical memory approx
> 
>     disk    cache    39%
>     disk buffer        8%
>     application data    49%
> free memory    3 Mb free
> 
> If I go kstart/system/info centre/storage devises  89% used hdd
> 
> If I run df-h Its say 90% as well
> 
> So is it from the upgrade to Debian Sid that's taken up so much room?
> Or is it these new files in home/avery when I use quickbrowser or in 
> konqueror using home/avery hidden files
> They weren't there before the -d dist-upgrade
> I think they are in home/David as well
> 
> I can't take off much more
> Can it be something to do with the cache
> 
> I have no idea
> 
> Avery
> 
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