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Re: Firefox 3.6.13 Tools/Downloads
14-01-2011 2:16 PM
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ls lha / gave a listing of some files with a total size of 96K therefor not containg a vast amount.
sudo du -sh /var/backup only two files of backup 2010 01 & 22 totalling 881M There have been other backups since then but not listed here.
sudo du -sh /home 760M
/tmp 36k
/dev 100k
/home/colin/.gvfs-fuse-daemon Access denied. all not abnormal. Where else might I look?
Tried the directory quoted in Arun's Blog on the subject got no such directory.
I have a few backups of /home/, /usr/local/, /etc/ the latest dated 2010 12 on a USB 16GB stick. If I clear my HD out and start again with a clean instal of 10.04.1. I should be able to put that on a new /home in a separate partition, if formed during instalation. Is this possible rather than trying to find where all thes files actally are ? 8.04 seems to be so battered that restoration could be impossible. I will look at Mint to see what that offers as a replacement if this would be recommended. I do have a Live CD of Mint 9.
Re: Firefox 3.6.13 Tools/Downloads
14-01-2011 7:10 PM
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sudo find / -type f -size +600MThis will reveal all your big files...
It may take several minutes to run...
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Re: Firefox 3.6.13 Tools/Downloads
14-01-2011 7:38 PM
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Quote from: colintivy I have a few backups of /home/, /usr/local/, /etc/ the latest dated 2010 12 on a USB 16GB stick. If I clear my HD out and start again with a clean instal of 10.04.1. I should be able to put that on a new /home in a separate partition, if formed during instalation. Is this possible rather than trying to find where all thes files actally are ? 8.04 seems to be so battered that restoration could be impossible. I will look at Mint to see what that offers as a replacement if this would be recommended. I do have a Live CD of Mint 9.
Your /home/username directory contains files which hold personalised application settings (in hidden files).
/etc contains system wide configuration settings.
It's quite likely that 8.04 is still upgradeable
The ideal situation is to create separate partitions for / and /home (of the correct size )
Install any extra packages you use...
Custom install 10.04.1 and recreate your data files from backups.
In future you can perform upgrades and /home will be protected against system changes.
"In The Beginning Was The Word, And The Word Was Aardvark."
Re: Firefox 3.6.13 Tools/Downloads
15-01-2011 4:28 PM
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Re: Firefox 3.6.13 Tools/Downloads
15-01-2011 7:42 PM
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I have only used simple file restore to restore a very few files at a time - it's got lots of protection against accidental overwrites etc of the wrong files, but it's very cumbersome.
Don't unzip your files onto a USB key - it will have a Win32 filesystem and you will lose all ownership & security info.
You should be able to use a linux unzip program to unzip those files, but use a view type mode to check it works...
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Re: Firefox 3.6.13 Tools/Downloads
16-01-2011 11:08 AM
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Regards
C.
Re: Firefox 3.6.13 Tools/Downloads
17-01-2011 3:22 PM
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I have Nutshell which I have found to be a bit too A level right now but Ubuntu Unleashed 2008 has what seems to be a good primer chapter on Bash. You will see that I am getting a bit better???? Some of its eg's are unclear however.
C,
Re: Firefox 3.6.13 Tools/Downloads
17-01-2011 4:24 PM
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From a command entry screen or terminal type
sudo nautilus
You now have a GUI screen, looking at your files with root privileges - and you can delete etc anything.
Press CTRL+H so that you see any hidden directories/files
Navigate to whatever you want to delete and press the delete key!
If you just want to delete that \home\Media\disk directory entirely, just delete the disk directory.
Hopefully, Nautilus will say it can't save the deleted items in the wastebasket - but if it does, you can tell it to empty your wastebasket.
Close Nautilus.
You will now see some scary lines in your terminal window, which say that Nautilus was unhappy (but they don't matter).
You may even be locked out from data entry in the terminal window - so press CTRL+C to fix it.
Please note, running GUI programs like this, as root is strongly NOT recommended!
BTW Try System -> Admin -> System Monitor (File Systems tab) - as a normal user - to look at disk usage.
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Re: Firefox 3.6.13 Tools/Downloads
19-01-2011 4:27 PM
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I also note that it seems impossible to look inside /dev/sda1 for some reason.
Re: Firefox 3.6.13 Tools/Downloads
19-01-2011 6:27 PM
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So as root "mount /dev/sda1 my_folder" then look in my_folder.
Looks like you have files that are in the trash but not been deleted, maybe a different user/previous version?
Re: Firefox 3.6.13 Tools/Downloads
19-01-2011 9:19 PM
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Quote from: colintivy Reading Arun's blog again showed that he eventually found similar files and deleted them with a satisfactory result but he does not say how he did that. Any ideas?
Try force-deleting them from within (sudo) nautilus; highlight the files in /root/.local/share/Trash/files/ and hit shift & delete keys together.
Re: Firefox 3.6.13 Tools/Downloads
20-01-2011 11:10 AM
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Trash directories appear to get re-created as needed (although a reboot might be needed to reconnect any new Trashes to your wastebasket).
I have deleted Trash directories from external disks with no ill effects.
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Re: Firefox 3.6.13 Tools/Downloads
21-01-2011 11:37 AM
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@ H B I tried to look at /dev/sda1 but was thwarted by the full disk. I cannot create a file or directory to use the method you supplied because there is no room at the Inn! Good idea if space was available.
@ Waldo. Because the find command as recommended by Jeremy did reveal the 3 Trash files that are causing the problem, I expected that the Nautilus Search facility would locate them as well and allow me to delete them. I used the full path of one of them for the search which seemed to take as long as the find command but it failed to produce anything. I checked with find and they were still there. So again I drew a blank.
@ Jeremy. I note that my deletion of the original back-up files using Nautilus was successful and a decrease of the disk use of 1GB was quoted by df -h, I know that these files actually totalled about 4GB which is a bit odd. Also I now find that the find command no longer finds the 3 Trash files but the disk still shows as full ie 100% despite the use reducing by 1GB, so they are not deleted, all very odd.
8.04 looks so tatty now that I am considering giving up on trying to correct the problem(s) that I have and use Live CD of 10.04 to start again. Here I assume that gparted will have the facility for me to put /home on its own partition at the start. This will leave me the job of getting my valuable files from the USB stick, unzipping them and trying to rebuild files in the new /home. Do you think that is a possible way forward?
Re: Firefox 3.6.13 Tools/Downloads
21-01-2011 11:47 AM
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If you have everything backed up then go ahead and wipe it using gparted.
Don't choose the Install from the boot menu but boot to the cd then run gparted.
Delete all the partitions then start again.
10->30Gb is good for / and the rest for /home with a swap of around 1Gb (or so depends on how much ram you have in the system but 1Gb is reasonable.)
Then run the install and choose Manual Partitioning when offered.
Re: Firefox 3.6.13 Tools/Downloads
21-01-2011 5:13 PM
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