On Friday 08 October 2010 13:32:00 you wrote: > Well,it may be that I've been wrongly advised. > > The subject arose when I mentioned that a PC of mine had several kernels > present. They were leftovers from earlier installations of Ubuntu. > > I asked (as politely as I could) for some help, on SLUG. > > Two solutions were forthcoming: a manual method (which worked) and Tweak. > > Later, I had cause to remove an installation and it seemed that the > removal was incomplete. I had visions of some bits left over and, as the > original installation included huge libraries, I thought I'd ask about > cleaning them out. Then I remembered Tweak. I knew zero about it, so, > again, I thought I'd ask (as politely and gently as I could). > > Perhaps I need some lessons in diplomacy.
William no, if anyone does then I do. There was nothing amis with your query at all. What I was saying is that the advice you had was ungood :-) Unix file systems do not accumulate spider webs, and need to be spring cleaned, but by keeping transactions in RAM pending to disk you are libel to the ravages of a power fail. A nice rule of thumb is not to let your partition get more than 80ish% full. The cost is longer times to gather all the pieces that make up a file. The bits you speak of (old kernel etc) are not disk issues but your distro package management. Each has its own way of dealing with old-stuff and I'm not aware of any package system that needs 'Tweak' or the like to keep everything shipshape. In any event (the great big windows solution) those bits are so trivial that they may be ignored (10s of MB on 100sGB disks) man apt-get shoud be of interest specially clean, autoclean and autoremove synaptic is a graphical way of removing cruft too. Again I appologise for making you feel picked on :-) James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
