[nmglug] disk space again

[BrianO'Keefe]

I did a bit of reading but wasn't sure about the KDE directory. I do use
some KDE apps so I guess I'd best keep it!! Any idea about the Beagle
question?

David Borton wrote:
> 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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