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Linux/X11 - A Cry for Help

Post 21

26199

Er... which file viewer?

It's getting embarrasing, I can't find a readout of space remaining anywhere... smiley - blush


Linux/X11 - A Cry for Help

Post 22

MaW

Some file managers probably do it, I don't have a clue though as I only use a graphical one occasionally. The easiest thing to do is to go to a terminal window and type

df -k

Which gives you a list of all your currently mounted partitions and how much space there is left on them in kilobytes. If you don't specify the -k, you could get the readout in something odd - the default seems to usually be kilobytes on Linux, but on Solaris it's 512-byte blocks (i.e. half-kilobytes), which is odd...

anyway, it may look something like this:

Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hdb2 23574708 7159988 15217168 32% /
tmpfs 1024 132 892 13% /mnt/.init.d
/dev/hda3 4909804 1061204 3848600 22% /home
/dev/hda5 5002452 4797252 205200 96% /mnt/babelfish
/dev/hdb3 15024160 8999680 6024480 60% /mnt/megadonkey


(only neater, because it'll be displayed in a fixed-width font)


Linux/X11 - A Cry for Help

Post 23

26199

Thanks smiley - smiley

As I suspected, I only have 50Mb left smiley - yikes

Not really much spare to be running a modern OS on... smiley - laugh

I can either clear off some junk... attempt to repartition things so's Windows doesn't have so much of the space... or go out and buy a hard disk 'specially for Linux. Hrm.

Tricky. D'you know of any partition managers for Linux that'll repartition non-empty partitions without killing 'em?

I might just get a new hard disk though, it can't hurt...


Linux/X11 - A Cry for Help

Post 24

MaW

Have a look at GNU Parted. It can do that kind of stuff to a certain extent, although make sure you read the documentation very carefully to make sure you know where the instabilities are and what you can do without losing data!


Linux/X11 - A Cry for Help

Post 25

26199

Thanks... I've downloaded it, looks pretty good... although I figure I'll wait until I'm feeling a little more awake before playing with it smiley - biggrin

It certainly looks nicer than what I used to resize my Windows partition in the first place...

Hmm. D'you happen to know of any good websites for Linux newbies such as m'self? Then maybe I could stop asking so many questions smiley - winkeye


Linux/X11 - A Cry for Help

Post 26

some bloke who tried to think of a short, catchy, pithy name and spent five sleepless nights trying but couldn't think of one

How about http://www.linuxnewbie.org

But if you are wanting to ask questions on H2G2, the LUG might be better ( A458228 )


Linux/X11 - A Cry for Help

Post 27

DoctorMO (Keeper of the Computer, Guru, Community Artist)

btw, 512 bytes is the number of bytes per sector on most disks, then you have 4 sectors per cluster (In windows) or in linux I think they have 8 sectors be chain link. although I know more about FAT and FAT32 then EXT2 and EXT3.

hmmm....

-- DoctorMO --


Linux/X11 - A Cry for Help

Post 28

MaW

Ah yes of course, there's usually a logical reason for most things...


Linux/X11 - A Cry for Help

Post 29

DoctorMO (Keeper of the Computer, Guru, Community Artist)

Usualy, You want to try the logic behind FAT12, it's a pain.

Try and create more that 200 directories on a floppy disk. smiley - tongueout

-- DoctorMO --


Linux/X11 - A Cry for Help

Post 30

MaW

Ah, but FAT12 was designed by Microsoft, was it not? Expecting logic there (or rather, logic which isn't twisted and based on something totally arbitrary and pointless) is pushing things a bit I think.


Linux/X11 - A Cry for Help

Post 31

DoctorMO (Keeper of the Computer, Guru, Community Artist)

The Microsoft FAT systems and even NTFS, has some realy BIG flaws and linux could stamp all over it, if windows suported EXT3. Damb.

-- DoctorMO --


Linux/X11 - A Cry for Help

Post 32

MaW

Ah, that would be good... I love ext3!

* is running / and /home partitions on ext3 at the moment, with two more FAT32 and another NTFS *


Linux/X11 - A Cry for Help

Post 33

DoctorMO (Keeper of the Computer, Guru, Community Artist)

Have you got a Quad Boot like me?

sounds like my home Hard disk.

-- DoctoRMO --


Linux/X11 - A Cry for Help

Post 34

Alex 195614 As everyone else seems to like incredibly long names I keep mine ironically short.

Docter Mo I do not want to yikes you but you have placed an offensive word in post :6
please have it removed
I belive it contravines with house rules
but I also belive you did not know that and that you sound to usefull to the comuunity to loose axess 4 a while


Linux/X11 - A Cry for Help

Post 35

26199

Alex - the rules aren't actually that strict... it's debateable as to whether using 'b*gg*r' is against the rules at all... and if it is, all that'll happen is the moderator will add stars like I just did there.

You can hit the yikes button if you are offended - it's not a big deal.

But Doctor Mo can't go back and edit the post himself...


Linux/X11 - A Cry for Help

Post 36

MaW

DoctorMO, no, I'm only dual-booting. I've only got 60GB of disk space, no room for four OSes!!


Linux/X11 - A Cry for Help

Post 37

some bloke who tried to think of a short, catchy, pithy name and spent five sleepless nights trying but couldn't think of one

You're not trying. I have four OSs on a 10GB hard drive. (Admittedly, two of which I hardly ever use)


Linux/X11 - A Cry for Help

Post 38

26199

smiley - laugh

I had a really annoying problem last night... maybe you've had this one before...

Freakily disappearing hard disk space... I clear some space, a few seconds later, it's gone again...

Prod about a bit... what's this... .xsession-errors, 500Mb? smiley - yikes

It turns out Wine likes to produce a lot of non-fatal error messages smiley - headhurts

For now it's being a copy of /dev/null, until I can be bothered to figure out a better solution...


Linux/X11 - A Cry for Help

Post 39

DoctorMO (Keeper of the Computer, Guru, Community Artist)

what 4 OSs have you got?

I got... DOS6.22/Win3.1 - Win98 - WinXP - Linux (Suse 7.3)
Thats on a 20GB Hard Disk, and because Win98 and WinXP share the same hard disk, they have 10GB between then loads of space, (for thoughs of us who remember fitting windows 95 on a 100MB hard disk Not too hard).

-- DoctorMO --


Linux/X11 - A Cry for Help

Post 40

MaW

I've just got Gentoo Linux (it was 1.1a when I installed it, but I think I've updated to 1.2, may have missed out a few core package of that, but it's not really a problem... will worry about that when I've got broadband and can download the new versions without sitting about all week) and Windows XP Pro. I seem to be a bit of a disk space hog...


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