[nmglug] disk space again

[BrianO'Keefe]

Thanks for the education! I need to finish the online Linux courses so I
know more about these things.
Beagle is a mixed bag and occasionally even works!

Anthony Martinez wrote:
> 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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