Re: [Dorset] Lets all laugh at me, my tale of woe

Hi Bob, > No regular scan. We'd debated it's utility at work and concluded it > was rather marginal and I'd just done the same at home. It seems to me it's useful for rust. If the disk is three-quarters full and only 60% of that read often, and that's probably high, then over half the disk isn'

Re: [Dorset] Lets all laugh at me, my tale of woe

On 23/08/18 12:30, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi Peter, Yes, they're kernels and you only typically need the last two or three working ones. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RemoveOldKernels might free quite a bit of space. That link suggests the command sudo apt-get autoremove --purge Perio

Re: [Dorset] Lets all laugh at me, my tale of woe

Hi Peter, > > Yes, they're kernels and you only typically need the last two or > > three working ones. > > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RemoveOldKernels might free quite > > a bit of space. > > That link suggests the command > sudo apt-get autoremove --purge > > Periodically when I add so

Re: [Dorset] Lets all laugh at me, my tale of woe

I notice that I have about 40 files called linux-signed-image-*.*.* and linux-system-extra-*.*.* of different versions. Do I need to get rid of most of these, and how do I do it? Yes, they're kernels and you only typically need the last two or three working ones. https://help.ubuntu.com/commun

Re: [Dorset] Lets all laugh at me, my tale of woe

Hi Peter, > > I record all the installed packages and their versions in a file just > > before every backup. The idea being with a comm(1) or diff(1) after > > recovery I can re-install missing packages en masse instead of figuring > > out what's missing piecemeal. > > > > dpkg-query -W --sh