Bloated Mint Install . . . or bad Swap?
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Bloated Mint Install . . . or bad Swap?
Everyone in my house has their own computer in their bedroom, but I have a common computer in the family room that everyone shares just web-surfing mostly-- quick/convenient reference. Long ago when I had PCLOS installed on it I made only a 5-GB partition (dual boot with Windows). A few weeks back I overwrote the PCLOS partition with Mint and everything was fine up until a few days ago. Not realizing how little space 5-GB's is for and OS these days, I loaded the Penguin Racer game for my son. Although it's a fun game, it made web-surfing difficult because it filled the hard drive to 100%. There wasn't even enough resources to watch a YouTube video.
Realizing this problem I deleted the Penguin Racer but that didn't seem to help, so I started deleting every application on the computer except for FireFox, Mplayer, OpenOffice, and the system utilities. Everything else is removed... no games, no music players, etc.... For whatever reason, removing all those applications did not help in getting back more HD space, Mint still is taking up 5-GB's with almost nothing installed. I had to resort to cutting my swap space in half to give more HD space for Mint and it's still at 92% full.
How is this possible? How can a bare-bones install of Mint take up 5-GB's of HD space? Yes, I used the "apt-get autoremove" but that didn't get me much. Any ideas?
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Realizing this problem I deleted the Penguin Racer but that didn't seem to help, so I started deleting every application on the computer except for FireFox, Mplayer, OpenOffice, and the system utilities. Everything else is removed... no games, no music players, etc.... For whatever reason, removing all those applications did not help in getting back more HD space, Mint still is taking up 5-GB's with almost nothing installed. I had to resort to cutting my swap space in half to give more HD space for Mint and it's still at 92% full.
How is this possible? How can a bare-bones install of Mint take up 5-GB's of HD space? Yes, I used the "apt-get autoremove" but that didn't get me much. Any ideas?
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Re: Bloated Mint Install?
Did you remember to add a swap partition when you installed Mint? I know it seems like it's something obvious, but I have made that mistake, and I've been using Linux for years, it just slips your mind sometimes.
Re: Bloated Mint Install?
The autoclean removed a few things, but the system is still showing 100% filled. As for creating a swap partition, it's there, I just don't think it's being used. I'm a bit of a noob, so please forgive my ignorance. Here is my fstab:McLovin wrote:Did you remember to add a swap partition when you installed Mint? I know it seems like it's something obvious, but I have made that mistake, and I've been using Linux for years, it just slips your mind sometimes.
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# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
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# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# /dev/hda3
UUID=6ca0d179-d660-497b-ad3c-dffeb65bc63e / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /dev/hda1
UUID=BE60CC93E000E1C3 /media/hda1 ntfs defaults,umask=007,gid=46 0 1
# /dev/hda5
UUID=50F5-2298 /media/hda5 vfat defaults,utf8,umask=007,gid=46 0 1
# /dev/hda4
UUID=4bac7051-97fc-4832-8b03-584aeeca5d11 /swap swap defaults 0 2
/dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto,exec 0 0
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Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda3 6191268 5953968 48620 100% /
varrun 517816 88 517728 1% /var/run
varlock 517816 0 517816 0% /var/lock
udev 517816 64 517752 1% /dev
devshm 517816 0 517816 0% /dev/shm
lrm 517816 23908 493908 5% /lib/modules/2.6.22-14-generic/volatile
/dev/hda1 25262180 21054840 4207340 84% /media/hda1
/dev/hda5 46071104 15207264 30863840 34% /media/hda5
fusesmb 6191268 5953968 48620 100% /home/user/Network
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/dev/hda1: UUID="BE60CC93E000E1C3" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/hda3: UUID="6ca0d179-d660-497b-ad3c-dffeb65bc63e" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/hda4: TYPE="swap" UUID="4bac7051-97fc-4832-8b03-584aeeca5d11"
/dev/hda5: LABEL="DATA" UUID="50F5-2298" TYPE="vfat"
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Re: Bloated Mint Install?
Nope. That didn't do anything. I was just looking over my own computer as well and I can't tell if the swap partition is being used on this machine either. How can you tell? Gparted reports a swap partition of 5 gigs , but I noticed it doesn't show it as being mounted. I'm a bit confused about this obviously. When I install Mint, I used the "use entire disk" option.Fred wrote:sudo apt-get clean
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Re: Bloated Mint Install . . . or bad Swap?
JAK,
Look in /etc/fstab and see if you have a mounting line in there for your swap partition. If you do, check the UUID to make sure it is correct.
In a terminal:
sudo vol_id -u /dev/sdxx
Substitute the correct drive letter and partition number and it will give you the correct UUID for that partition.
Fred
Look in /etc/fstab and see if you have a mounting line in there for your swap partition. If you do, check the UUID to make sure it is correct.
In a terminal:
sudo vol_id -u /dev/sdxx
Substitute the correct drive letter and partition number and it will give you the correct UUID for that partition.
Fred
Re: Bloated Mint Install . . . or bad Swap?
Run the disk space analyser (or whatever it is called) and check which folders that take all the space. I guess a bit of cleaning in /var/apt and /var/logs is in order, maybe some of the hidden folders.
As for the installation size, I think the 700MB ISO comes with about 2 GB of software, and 4 GB is the minimum recommend installation partition, around 10 GB is the maximum you'll ever need on a root partition (if you use a separate home partition).
As for the installation size, I think the 700MB ISO comes with about 2 GB of software, and 4 GB is the minimum recommend installation partition, around 10 GB is the maximum you'll ever need on a root partition (if you use a separate home partition).
Re: Bloated Mint Install . . . or bad Swap?
I'll try resizing the partitions and see how well that goes. Since the Windows partition is not getting much use, I can steal a bit more space from that. I'll bump it up to 10 or 15 gigs. I just find it very strange that the system is using so much HD space for so very few applications and taking another 500mb from the swap partition didn't help at all.... it's still at 100% usage.
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Re: Bloated Mint Install . . . or bad Swap?
It might be something wrong with the file system, have you tried fsck?
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There are some hidden folders that usually build up a sizable amount of MB, for instance /home/user/.thumbnails
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There are some hidden folders that usually build up a sizable amount of MB, for instance /home/user/.thumbnails
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Being new to Linux, I don't want to muck around where I don't know what I'm doing. I'd hate to manually delete files and not have my system work after that. What does fsck do and what syntax should I use? I tried running it but was warned it should not be used on a mounted filesystem.MagnusB wrote:It might be something wrong with the file system, have you tried fsck?
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There are some hidden folders that usually build up a sizable amount of MB, for instance /home/user/.thumbnails
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Re: Bloated Mint Install . . . or bad Swap?
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fsck /dev/hda3
Re: Bloated Mint Install . . . or bad Swap?
Problem solved.... sort of. I had an 80gb HD hanging around so I put it in the computer and installed Mint from scratch. I created a 78gb partition and a 2gb partition for swap but I can't seem to get Mint to see the swap partition. You would think that is automatic. It keeps coming up [FAIL] during boot and it doesn't show up when I list the mounts.
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EDIT: Refer to this thread for the solution: http://www.linuxmint.com/forum/viewtopi ... 42&t=10941
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EDIT: Refer to this thread for the solution: http://www.linuxmint.com/forum/viewtopi ... 42&t=10941
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