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Re: Why so big?

Chris

2008-05-16

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On Fri, 16 May 2008 05:38:19 -0600
Karl Larsen <k5di@(protected):

> steve wrote:
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> > Rich Rudnick wrote:
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> > |> Karl Larsen wrote:
> > |> |   I loaded this Ubuntu system with a Live CD which was close
> > to 700 |> | MBytes. It has been updated a lot and is the Gutsy
> > version. I was just |> | checking and the hard drive has
> > |> |
> > |> |   6,796,024,000 Bytes now! It is getting bigger every day. I
> > wonder if
> > |> | it will end?
> > |> |
> > |> | Karl
> > |> |
> > |>
> > |>
> > |> If im not mistaken the base install size is in the vicinity of
> > 2gb, your |> closer to 7. you install extra stuff, LAMP, KDE, etc?
> > |>
> > |>
> > |
> > | You can get a pretty good idea of where your disk space is going
> > with | baobab .
> > |
> > |
> > wow. learn something new every day, wonder who in the world thought
> > up that vague name......gotta be nik or acronym for
> > something....... what........ i have NO idea lol
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > - --
> > Steve Reilly
> >
> > http://reillyblog.com
> >
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>   I discovered this was right under my nose but never used. It is
> located at Applications - Disk Usage Analyser. Now using it I am
> confused by what it says. It says that my load of version 7.10 is
> very wasteful of disk space. For example it says my system is 2.5 GB
> and very poor disk usage.
>
>   But I used the old df and got this:
>
> Filesystem       1K-blocks    Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda8         9187068  6795608  1924776 78% /
>
> This I wrote as 6795608000 bytes, and it is 6.8 GB. It appears that
> df is wrong.
>
>
> Karl
>


I find that using df -h helps to remove errors in my readings :)

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Chris

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