Re: [SOLVED] Low disc space warning
Posted: Mon Apr 01, 2013 10:31 am
Thanks Jerther!!...It was really helpful!
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Is that what's causing your CAPS-LOCK button to stick on, lol?Hairman wrote:I AM SEARCHING FOR AN ANSWER AND THIS IS THE ONLY THING I FOUND CLOSE. I DO HAVE A LOW DISC SPACE ON MY /USR PARTITION. I HAVE SPACE IN THE OTHER END OF MY HDD. HOW CAN I COPY AND MOVE THIS PARTITION, OR IS IT NOT POSSIBLE? I CANNOT DELETE ANYTHING FROM THE PARTION USR. THANKS. SORRY IF THIS IS THE WRONG PLACE, BUT I COULD NOT FIND MUCH ABOUT THIS ISSUE. CHEERS, HAIRMAN.
The OP's issue is solved. He was not trying to learn how to increase the amount of free-space on his system; he wanted to learn how to configure a "low disc(sic) space" warning - and he did.caperash wrote:I also have this problem and have been unable to find anything in the forum addressing it, even though this thread says it is 'solved'.
I have only 40k free and usually cannot open up the program.
Ikem wrote:The "gnome-settings-daemon" has a plugin called "housekeeping".Jerther wrote:Low disc space warning
This is causing the "Low disc space" warning.
Maybe you need to reinstall it?Jerther wrote:She claims seeing no warning of low disc space.
Out of curiosity, I looked for a "Systems" directory on my system in order to see how big my "system" file is. I do not have a Systems directory in my home directory or in my main / one. Is it buried several levels deep somewhere? Can you give the full name of this system file (is it, perhaps, called something else other than "system," and where exactly is it located)?jdhank wrote:I just installed M14 a few days ago also and after installing a few programs & updates, movies, etc I am now getting the same warning issue (Low Disc Space) and unable to update anymore and Firefox is running in a very ltd mode (NO Bookmarks or History or working back arrow).
I found under "Systems" that my system file, the one on the top is now Maxx'd out at 10 GB though my Hard-drive is 500 GB large with about 450 GB unused....So HOW do I give more GB to that particular file to increase it from 10 GB to say 200GB? It seems that file is where everything is arbitrarily going.
That's when your system drive turns into a "read only" drive, LOL.caperash wrote:I also have this problem and have been unable to find anything in the forum addressing it, even though this thread says it is 'solved'. I have only 40k free and usually cannot open up the program.
Uh, maybe it was to blame. You could have chosen the "do something else" option and installed it to the drive you wanted instead.caperash wrote:Linux installed itself on a secondary hard drive with less free space than the primary one.
Nope, it's easy. You run a LIVE CD or DVD and open gparted and remove the partitions you want gone and it's all over.caperash wrote: I gather uninstalling is very difficult (also no instructions, forum unclear).
You could google for linux 101 and dummies books on it, there's a few links available to full versions of the Dummy type books and they are fairly good. The Mint Manual is aimed at the particular distro and not at providing general knowledge of Linux itself, that's somewhat assumed.caperash wrote:I want to switch to Linux permanently but am not a sophisticated user despite having been on the computer since the early 1980's. I am finding it very hard to understand what is going on and think that Mint should come up with a much better Help Manual or something online with major issues clearly explained. The forum is way to vast, unstructured and haphazard, both thematically and chronologically.
Same here. I used to play around with early Knoppix distros, but wanted more than was being provided at the time for a desktop environment. For me Linux has arrived as a desktop friendly OS with the right distro. For windows users, Mint and various of the "ubuntus" like Lubuntu and Kubuntu seem sufficient if given time to adjust to them. I'd say it takes the average windows user about 2-4 months depending on how occasional the usage is as the transition. Mint has a file manager that can show you disk usage same as explorer does in windows. It show the size of drives, you can right clk on the icon and get info concerning space used and space available in Properties. Gparted will show partitions. You can also open terminal and run blkid or fdisk -l, and various other commands. One favorite of mine to get a lot of information is from the inxi command run in terminalcaperash wrote:I have tried 3 times in the past 7 years to switch over but each time find I get stumped by something for which no apparent solution emerges so I reluctantly go back to Windows where at least I can understand things like Hard Disk usage, partitions and so on.
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What I did before installing to hard drive was a process. First I used Virtual Box in Windows and tried out various Linux distros using it to babysit the interface with hardware to see what I liked the most. Next was to do full install (not a LIVE install) of the distros I wanted to test more onto 16GB flash drives. My favorite for least problems caused by flash media were the Kingston DTSE9 which cost $10-12. Slow on boot but let me discover and fix any possible hardware conflicts or decide to seek some other distro. Once it's booted and in RAM it's fast enough. Finally used "something else" installation and put on hard drives to use.caperash wrote:Perhaps I should have backed up everything in an external drive (I don't yet have) and then started with totally fresh hard disk for Linux, but I am not ready to entirely abandon Windows until I know I can survive in Mint.
(low memory = short on disc space.+)caperash wrote:Anyway, what do I do with this low memory given that I have tons of free space on a different drive and partition but not much in the partition Linux arbitrarily selected during installation? Do I have to re-install? Or what?Any help appreciated as long as it has clear steps, otherwise will not be able to figure out. Thxs!
jdhank wrote:I just installed M14 a few days ago also and after installing a few programs & updates, movies, etc I am now getting the same warning issue (Low Disc Space) and unable to update anymore and Firefox is running in a very ltd mode (NO Bookmarks or History or working back arrow).
I found under "Systems" that my system file, the one on the top is now Maxx'd out at 10 GB though my Hard-drive is 500 GB large with about 450 GB unused....So HOW do I give more GB to that particular file to increase it from 10 GB to say 200GB? It seems that file is where everything is arbitrarily going.
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Jdh