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Firefox 3.6.13 Tools/Downloads
04-01-2011 1:35 PM
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colintivy
Re: Firefox 3.6.13 Tools/Downloads
04-01-2011 1:43 PM
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05-01-2011 3:10 PM
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You can safely clean package downloads - ie the bits to be installed with the command
sudo apt-get cleanThis does not wipe your installed software!
Indeed, I do this every few days....
"In The Beginning Was The Word, And The Word Was Aardvark."
Re: Firefox 3.6.13 Tools/Downloads
09-01-2011 7:05 PM
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Thamks for that, I have looked at /var but it does not seem to be unduly full and I noite that if I try to delete any of the folders, this is greyed out. I fear that my problem is much more in the intersticies of Ubuntu. When the original download failed, I diid observe a lot of disk activity which looks like a lot of guph has been deposited somewhere which is clogging the works. Note that I am writing this on my old Dell with XP Pro. because, although much of Ububtu does work well there appear to be a problem with saving documents with error messages saying "no room on your disk" or words to that effect. I also find that if I select Applications sometimes nothing happens. I am keen to get the whole OS updated which might get over the problem so I will try to get /home on its own partition asap if that is possible, I have got that backed up on an USB drive, I have got live disks of 9.10 which seems to be ok and 10.04 which seems to not want to go to Live mode. Update Manager offers upgrade to 10.04.1, is it possible to try that from either of the two disks and get things right up to date?
Thanks,
Colin
Re: Firefox 3.6.13 Tools/Downloads
09-01-2011 7:29 PM
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What is the output of running df -h from a termial - you should see something similar to this:
$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/ad6s2a 989M 346M 564M 38% /
devfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100% /dev
/dev/ad6s2g 12G 4.7G 6.2G 43% /home
/dev/ad6s2d 989M 264M 646M 29% /tmp
/dev/ad6s2f 19G 16G 1.5G 92% /usr
/dev/ad6s2e 1.9G 262M 1.5G 14% /var
Re: Firefox 3.6.13 Tools/Downloads
09-01-2011 8:56 PM
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Quote from: colintivy Thamks for that, I have looked at /var but it does not seem to be unduly full and I noite that if I try to delete any of the folders, this is greyed out...
Don't do that! /var (and other places) contain vital files.
The directories in /var are protected from deletion by ordinary users as a protective measure.
Ubuntu 10.04.1 is just 10.04 + a couple of months of updates, so that would be the way to go.
AFAIK /tmp gets cleared when you reboot - but post a copy of your df -h output before upgrading anything.
"In The Beginning Was The Word, And The Word Was Aardvark."
Re: Firefox 3.6.13 Tools/Downloads
10-01-2011 9:42 AM
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Re: Firefox 3.6.13 Tools/Downloads
10-01-2011 12:16 PM
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Filesystem Size Used Avail use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 12G 12G 0 100% /
varrun 248M 116K 248M 1% /var/run
varlock 248M 0 248M 0% /var/lock
udev 248M 60K 248M 1% /dev
devshm 248M 24K 248M 1% /dev/shm
lrm 248M 40M 209M 16% /lib/modules/2.6.24-28-generic/volatile
overflow 118M 100K 924K 10% /tmp
gvfs-fuse-daemon 12G 12G 0 100% /home/colin.gvfs
I hope this sheds light!!!
colin
Re: Firefox 3.6.13 Tools/Downloads
10-01-2011 2:18 PM
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Colin
Re: Firefox 3.6.13 Tools/Downloads
10-01-2011 2:37 PM
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/dev/sda1 12G 12G 0 100% /
This is the "root" of the hard disk and means it is full up with data.
Last line is some sort of virtual file system and is reporting full probably due to the above.
[Edit]
run "ls /" and then "du -sh" on listed directories (apart from /proc and /var)
to see where all the data usage is
eg
du -sh /home
du -sh /tmp
etc
JymboP
Re: Firefox 3.6.13 Tools/Downloads
10-01-2011 3:14 PM
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e.g.
sudo ls -lha /
sudo du -sh /home
sudo du -sh /tmp
etc...
BTW Have you ever emptied your wastebasket (just a thought)
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Re: Firefox 3.6.13 Tools/Downloads
10-01-2011 4:39 PM
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Re: Firefox 3.6.13 Tools/Downloads
11-01-2011 6:37 AM
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Re: Firefox 3.6.13 Tools/Downloads
11-01-2011 11:45 AM
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sudo du -h /var/backup | sort -k2
This will list all your backups, in date order (replace /var/backup with an appropriate alternative, if you don't use the default).
You should see something like
58G /backup
8.5G /backup/2010-12-07_07.24.10.797118.HECTOR.ful
215M /backup/2010-12-08_14.01.42.894109.HECTOR.inc
210M /backup/2010-12-09_20.00.10.569687.HECTOR.inc
183M /backup/2010-12-10_06.40.37.532042.HECTOR.inc
229M /backup/2010-12-11_07.48.30.015547.HECTOR.inc
215M /backup/2010-12-12_19.22.54.489210.HECTOR.inc
161M /backup/2010-12-13_17.35.15.881932.HECTOR.inc
8.5G /backup/2010-12-14_13.17.53.385861.HECTOR.ful
212M /backup/2010-12-15_08.30.25.231236.HECTOR.inc
... etc
"In The Beginning Was The Word, And The Word Was Aardvark."
Re: Firefox 3.6.13 Tools/Downloads
11-01-2011 6:09 PM
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@ HB.... Original install was from Live CD not WUBI.
@ Waldo....Yes Simple Backup was used because it was there! All the backups were saved on an external USB Stick. The two refs need detailed reading and look bang on the subject, Thanks.
@ jeremy....sudo looks the best way to examine the files.Thanks
Retires for time to get down to that volume of info, will report findings when I have some.
colintivy
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