[nmglug] disk space again

[Anthony Martinez]

On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 08:05:24PM -0600, BrianO'Keefe wrote:
> 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

/proc is a virtual filesystem. The huge file called "kcore" is the
"kernel core" -- basically, all the memory in your machine accessible
via a file. However, it doesn't -really- take up space.

> 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?

I have never used Beagle, so I have no idea.

> > thanks in advance!
> > Brian
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