[nmglug] new laptop

[Brian O'Keefe]

Once I have migrated fully I'll either use it for mass storage or 
install something fun and unimportant. Manjaro looks interesting. Maybe 
a VM look at it. Thanks for the feedback!

On 8/3/19 10:39 PM, Satsangat Khalsa wrote:
> You could do a "low level" format on SCSI drives and we could 
> resurrect really malcontent hard drives like that. In someway SATA 
> drives are supposed to have some SCSI hardware capablitiies.  Does 
> anybody know how  he could do that?  Anyhow, it seems like you should 
> do surgery on that drive and  reload some kind of real basic linux 
> like Puppy till your sure it won't misbehave anymore.
>
> On Sat, Aug 3, 2019 at 8:14 AM Brian O'Keefe <okeefe at cybermesa.com 
> <mailto:okeefe at cybermesa.com>> wrote:
>
>     Now the joy of migrating my email and browser data! BTW, my older
>     ACER has decided to open directories in FF instead of Nautilus.
>     Any idea of how to stop this bead behavior or why it started?
>
>     On 8/1/19 6:04 PM, Satsangat Khalsa wrote:
>>     Congrats on the new Asus
>>
>>     On Mon, Jul 29, 2019 at 6:27 PM Brian O'Keefe
>>     <okeefe at cybermesa.com <mailto:okeefe at cybermesa.com>> wrote:
>>
>>         Howdy all,
>>
>>         I bought a on-sale laptop. It's an: ASUS VivoBook 15.6" FHD
>>         Laptop, Quad-Core Ryzen 5 2500U Processor (up to 3.6 GHz)
>>         with Radeon Vega 8 Graphics, 8 GB DDR4, 256 GB M.2 SSD,
>>         802.11ac Wi-Fi - F505ZA-DH51. It's a race car for me at
>>         least. I downloaded Ubunu 19.04 and made a bootable USB drive
>>         and installed. Boy is it good looking! I can't wait to get
>>         all of my data migrated but I am. As you see the SSD is not
>>         so large as the 1TB I have on my old ACER. I thought that I
>>         was using about 45% disk space and was not, of course,
>>         worried because the drive is so large capacity. I never
>>         finished migrating all of my data from my previous and hosed
>>         500GBSSD that Mark helped, or actually did, save so I have
>>         some scattered data on the ACER and on the 500SSD. In
>>         prepping to start moving stuff around I used the GUI Disk
>>         Analyzer and very much to my surprise I found files of up to
>>         49GB!! I have 5 or 6 WINE programs I run and that shows up as
>>         a 39GB folder. Now that makes no sense at all, as is the case
>>         with several other folders. I have a folder for my activism
>>         stuff and that's 29GB which is outlandishly wrong. So the
>>         Disk analyzer is wrong or somehow these folders have been
>>         growing on their own, bloating like a president's ego. My Q
>>         is, what console tool would give me the disk usage in a
>>         tree-like format (I know not like a GUI but a list from
>>         highest to lowest size of folders). Is this possible?
>>
>>         It appears that if the GUI Disk Analyzer is correct then I
>>         can lose a few items, like the wine programs, VMs and other
>>         unnecessaries and have plenty of space on the new drive. I
>>         had planned to use the 1TB drive as a storage device for my
>>         10,000+ photos, etc. This would work but I don't trust the
>>         GUI and don't want to start some weird event and lose data
>>         nor do I want to transfer mostly useless data that is
>>         actually  a couple Gigs and not the tens of GB I am seeing.
>>
>>         I'll check out the forums for a console command but i thought
>>         I'd go to the best first.
>>
>>         Cheers
>>
>>         Brian
>>
>>
>>
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