[nmglug] disk space again

[BrianO'Keefe]

I've been working on that idea but I already have a 15 gig partition for
Linux on my laptop as well as a 40 gig partition for OS X, which I never
use so I should clone that to my 40 gig usb drive. I have a 160 gig usb
drive that fills up with all my torrent downloads.

Nick Frost wrote:
> 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?
>
> Rather than do cleanup to recover space, you could simply purchase a
> larger hard drive, clone your existing partition(s) to it, and solve
> your space problems that way.  If you use DD, you may have to resize
> the partition on the new drive, but that's not a big deal.  If you use
> something like Ghost (DOS) it will do that for you.
>
> -Nick
>