[nmglug] Now I did it!

[mohadib]

hmm

ever heard of a paragraph? ... maybe some indetation?! :p

TLDR,
jd

On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 09:45 -0600, BrianO'Keefe wrote:
> I'm hoping that someone(s) can help me here. I have had a constant issue
> with vanishing disk space on my Ubuntu partition (dual boots with OS X
> on a TiBook ppc). I have stopped keeping any media files on my hard
> drive and have transfered them all to a remote usb drive (another
> issue). Yet my disk space keeps dwindling a few hundred MBs at a time
> until I was down to less than to 2 GB. I stumbled across the utility
> KdirStat which is a gui and utility like du in that it shows disk usage
> but also can delete or modify files right in the gui-a nice option. I
> read the how-to and one suggestion was to use the option of "make clean"
> by right clicking on a build directory  for installed packages built
> from source and the build files would be deleted saving some space. I
> have quite a few of these like Sunbird (the mozilla directory, a total
> PITA to install and I haven't had success reinstalling it), Mplayer,
> Gnash, etc and as I had deleted or moved everything I could think of
> this seemed like a good option. I right clicked and chose "make clean"
> for those directories, all in my home folder (probably not a good place
> to build packages, but I'm still learning). Of course, now these
> packages don't work at all anymore . Sunbird is a bust and though I
> still have my calendar files in ~/.mozilla they don't all show up when
> imported into Evolution, which I do not want to use as it kept freezing
> when it made too many copies of log files with weird extensions (never
> did figure that out except to force quit, delete the log files and
> restart the app) and though Mozilla suite starts fine, when I tried to
> import the .ics file into the Moz-calendar, it loaded and then crashed
> the app. Mozsuite still starts but crashes immediately upon trying to
> import the .ics file. This was my fall back option, to use Moz-suite
> instead of Sunbird and Thunderbird. Thunderbird is fine as I didn't run
> "make clean" on that directory, thank the pc gods!
> Mplayer plays but without sound. I built the version I use from source
> for better performance playing wmv and flash video as the Ubuntu version
> didn't work well.
> I downloaded an rpm for ppc and installed an alien produced deb for
> Sunbird into /usr/bin. It won't start and I get an error that the
> mozilla runtime library could not be found.
> The big picture here is that I would like to sort all of this out but I
> would also like to rework my entire partition setup and lose some of the
> OS X partition after a thorough backup. I have a firewire drive with an
> archive of OS X stuff but for some reason I can't read it from OS X but
> I can from Ubuntu though I can't access the data as it shows up
> corrupted. This firewire drive has gotten almost no use since the backup
> and 2 other partitions on it are fine. It just sits on my desk for
> emergencies.
> so I've got 2 remote drives of 200GB, a partitioned hd on my notebook
> with a 40 GB OS X part with 6GB remaining and an Ubuntu part of 15GB
> with 2GB remaining. I have all kinds of user installed software on both
> partitions and in the case of the Ubuntu one I've installed stuff all
> over the place and some is broken. I need someone(s) to help me figure
> out how to clean this up,have a functioning tho smaller OS X partition
> that I can use Mac-on-Linux for in Ubuntu and an upgrade to Feisty Fawn
> on the Ubuntu part. A side note is that the release candidate for Feisty
> works great on ppc but the unofficial stable release, the only available
> one, does not due to some bad code. I want to have, keep or recreate the
> software that I've added and that will need some serious sorting out. I
> would be happy to have a meeting at the SFBC to discuss this with any
> and all who might help and would pay a consulting fee if we came up with
> something that might work. I've thought of cloning the whole mess to a
> remote drive, getting a larger hard drive for my TiBook, and cloning
> back onto the new drive. Maybe a new laptop, x86, as the ppc Ubuntu is
> no longer "official". Much to ponder.
> tnaks for reading this tome and I appreciate all responses!
> 
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