[nmglug] hard disk usage

[Jason Schaefer]

try these two things

1. in synaptic go to settings -> preferences -> files and click the 
"Delete Cached Package Files" button. You might also select the option 
to "Delete downloaded packages after installation"

2. in Thunderbird go to File -> "compact folders". Depending on how much 
mail you have this can really save some space. You can set it to 
automatically run when mail reaches a certain size. Go to Edit -> 
preferences -> advanced -> check off under "disk space"

Good luck

Jason


Ed Brown wrote:
> The symbiotic relationships between mozilla, firefox, thunderbird and 
> other stuff is hard to sort out.  But ~/.mozilla is more than 
> preferences (at least everywhere I've used it), it usually has Cache 
> directories, that can get Large, including firefox's Cache 
> directories.  You really should be able to install Firefox without 
> having Mozilla installed, and that would get you significant space 
> back, but maybe it's different on Ubuntu...
>
> BrianO'Keefe wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>
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