On 23 June 2010 at 09:38 Bob Dunlop <bob.dun...@xyzzy.org.uk> wrote: > I've not used a 700 but I'm guessing disk space is about right. > The initial 4G (sda) will also have big chunks reserved for swap and the > Xandros recovery partition. Hence only 1.4G for the user. Yes. I've now discovered that sda is split into two parts and df wwas being confused somehow. There is a 100 % full partition of 2.3G called sda1, according to the Diagnostic Utility in the Settings tab. I assume that's the Xandros system partition, but I can't work out how to get at it. The 1.4G partition is sda2.
> Having had to cleanup a 901 recently I suspect the problme you are hitting > is not raw space but inode allocation. Try a "df -i" to check. Xandros > seems to leave a lot of temporary files lying around eating up inodes. > > One cleanup suggested on the web is: > sudo find / -iname '.wh*' -delete > Also: > sudo apt-get clean I couldn't get those to do anything. > I tried both of these by remote control. I wonder if talking a seismologist > through things step by step is any easier than your mother :-) It gave us > some short term relief. Actually, I'm staying with her for a couple of days; hence the tasks. > Ultimate solution is to replace the aging and poorly supported Xandros with > something newer. On the 901 for general use I can recommend Ubuntu Remix > 10.4. I don't know if it will fit on a 700. That's what I'd like to do, but I think she needs more time to get used to the idea. It runs well on my wife's 900. -- Next meeting: Blandford Forum, Tuesday 2010-07-06 20:00 http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2645413 Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.org&channel=%23dorset List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset
