Hello, Cindy. On 25/10/2014, Cindy-Sue Causey <[email protected]> wrote: > On 10/25/14, Andrei POPESCU <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Sb, 25 oct 14, 19:04:18, Bret Busby wrote: >>> >>> :~# df -h >>> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on >> ... >>> /dev/sda8 77G 73G 194M 100% /home >> >> Can't tell if this is the source of you problems, but I've seen all >> sorts of strange failures with a full /home, including X not starting at >> all. You should probably do something about this. > > > Have tried to follow "df" conversations before and been lost.. For > some reason, THIS time a piece of it clicked. > > To Bret, WOW.. The size there stood out to me because it was only > recently I manually backed my /home up and incidentally noticed its > size.. I do a decent amount of personal computing, and my /home is > only 82MB large. My /home's pretty much just ignored and left to its > own doing, too. > > Won't ask what's in there because that's a personal thing.. Maybe > there are a lot of downloaded files, documents, images, that kind of > thing that could be reorganized somewhere else? >
My mail (pine -> alpine) directory (and all of the hundred or so sub-directories) shows as being about 14GB. That includes all (I think, all) email going back about 12 years or so, apart from incoming malicious email that I try to get deleted (at one stage, in what I believe was an attack, I was getting about 300 malicious messages each hour, for a day or so). My home partition also includes (as much as it does) backups of my home partition and a data partition, from a Debian 5 system that I had, which included partial backup of data from a Debian 4 system; two partions from the Debian 5 system - one about 18GB and one about 24GB. In a moving of data, or a disk failure, or something similar, some years ago, I lost about 20 years of genealogical research data, going back , in one of the lines, about 400-500 years, that I had got from one relative, some years ago, I think. > This is the point where threads sometimes go to the tip of telling our > browsers to ask us where we want to download things. Alternatively we > have the CHOICE to also semi-permanently tell many browsers to > automatically download somewhere other than > /home/[userName]/Downloads, into a separate dedicated partition, for > example.. > Where I can, I set browsers (I think I have about 5 or 6 that I use, for different purposes) to ask me where to save downloads, but, sometimes, one of the browsers; Arora, decides it is time for it to delete all my settings, so, from time to time, I have to configure it all over again. About the only thing for which I use the Downloads directory, for saving downloads, is for sepcial software downloads, like Opera packages and other packages not in the Debian repositories, and, iso files, but, after I have written the iso files to optical discs, I generally either delete the iso files, or, move them to an external USB drive (and, one of those drives died on me, losing all the data that I had backed up to it) > Thumbnails are another place that can accumulate size over time. I'm > not going to advocate what I do here because I just wing it. I do know > that at least some how-to's advocate explicitly excluding hidden > thumbnail folders during backups. I take that to imply thumbnails are > very fleeting, in other words are "temporary" and easily replaceable.. > *wink* > > If your /home stuff is not too personal to share once you discover > what created that size, it might help others avoid their own 100%.. > They'll know where to proactively avoid the same size issue, if > nothing else just by creating a larger partition wherever /home > resides should they happen to have computing habits similar to yours.. > When I get the /home partition close to full (usually, when it gets down to about 100-200MB free, so that I get worried that I might not be able to download my email for my domain names), I tend to move movies, etc, on to an external USB hard drive (I have one of those, that does actually work, at present). > Just thinking out loud.. :) > > Cindy > > -- > Cindy-Sue Causey > Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA > > * runs with duct tape * > I suppose that is safer, than running with wolves, and, lighter to carry... :) -- Bret Busby Armadale West Australia .............. "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means." - Deep Thought, Chapter 28 of Book 1 of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy In Four Parts", written by Douglas Adams, published by Pan Books, 1992 .................................................... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/cacx6j8n8gg4fqroc5aenmsz2r2d1xcn7kwhwvoqfaqdqv5u...@mail.gmail.com
