[nmglug] disk space again

[David Borton]

The /proc filesystem is integral to the function of the kernel.  A decent
intro can be found at
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/ref-guide/ch-proc.html

I don't think you will have much luck controlling the size of this virtual
file system.  You could remove KDE entirely if either you have Gnome or it
is a server that doesn't need a GUI.

-David

-----Original Message-----
From: nmglug-bounces at nmglug.org [mailto:nmglug-bounces at nmglug.org] On Behalf
Of BrianO'Keefe
Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2007 8:05 PM
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Subject: Re: [nmglug] disk space again

I checked out / with ls -l:
dr-xr-xr-x 476 root root     0 2007-04-02 14:02 proc
yet when I run $ sudo du -h --max-depth=1 / I see that:
808M    /proc
And in Nautilus I see that a KDECore directory is the culprit. What is this
thing? I'm using Ubuntu with Gnome. Do I need this directory?
Thanks


BrianO'Keefe wrote:
> Hi all,
> I was burning a dvd using GnomeBaker from content on a separate USB 
> drive. The file was about 3.5 gigs in size. I have had 2-3 gigs of 
> free space on my hard drive but I started getting low disk space 
> warnings when trying to burn the disk. I thought this was due to 
> temporary files so I canceled the burn but my disk space stayed low. I 
> logged out and back in to see if the tmp files would be flushed but no 
> dice. I decided to check disk space in my home directory which was 
> showing as 7 gigs-very high. I found the .gnomebaker.iso file and 
> deleted it but I see that Beagle is using 648 MB and most of that is 
> the text-cache. Do I need this cache?
> thanks in advance!
> Brian
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