[nmglug] hard disk usage

[BrianO'Keefe]

it's home/mozilla and I have a home/.mozilla for preferences. I know
Firefox uses mozilla stuff for building Thunderbird and "Bon Echo", the
Firefox 2.0 that I installed form source. Can't remove the FF1.5 as
Ubuntu 6.04 uses many of its libraries for other apps. That's why it's
never been backported. The application Mozilla is in /usr/bin as is
Firefox. I have both the Mozilla suite and Firefox installed. i have
considered uninstalling the Mozilla suite but Firefox depends on it.
No yum for me as I'm on PPC-Ubuntu and so I have Synaptic.

Ed Brown wrote:
> BrianO'Keefe wrote:
>> "babbling Baobabs of disk usage" reminds me of Spiro Agnew's "Nattering
>> Nabobs of Negativity" when he referred to anti Viet Nam war folks.
>
> :-)
>
>> Any ideas
>> about the huge Mozilla directory? du says 639MB. 
>
> Not sure where you mean.  Mozilla with a capital M does sound like a
> program directory.  If you have both Mozilla and Firefox installed,
> definitely get rid of mozilla.  But a .mozilla/ in your home directory
> can also be used by firefox, and could have multiple Cache/ dirs (from
> different users/logins).  Remove everything in them.
>
>> Var is 842MB with the cache directory
>> at 340MB.
>
> Very likely dispensable.  Follow it down.  Probably just one app dir
> in /var/cache accounts for most of this.  (For me, like I said, it's
> usually yum.)  And see where the rest of that is coming from: /var/log
> often at fault if you don't have rotation automatically dropping logs
> after a week or so.
>
> -ed
>
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