Re: Why so big?

Chris wrote:
On Fri, 16 May 2008 05:38:19 -0600
Karl Larsen <k5di@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


steve wrote:

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Rich Rudnick wrote:
| steve 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
|> |
|>
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|> 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?
|>
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| You can get a pretty good idea of where your disk space is going
with | baobab .
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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




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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 :)


karl@karl-desktop:~$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda8 8.8G 6.4G 2.0G 76% /


I agree, but there is no error in my reading you see :-)


Karl


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