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Grex > Info > #143: Easy commands *you* can use to help save disk space! | |
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popcorn
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Easy commands *you* can use to help save disk space!
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May 1 18:28 UTC 1994 |
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popcorn
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response 1 of 47:
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May 1 18:52 UTC 1994 |
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vishnu
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response 2 of 47:
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May 1 19:01 UTC 1994 |
In the menumore /usr/stats/DiskUsage command, what
are the numbers on the sides? Bytes? On !du,
I have something like 304 and on this i have something
like 504.
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popcorn
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response 3 of 47:
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May 1 19:08 UTC 1994 |
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vishnu
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response 4 of 47:
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May 1 19:37 UTC 1994 |
I didn't delete 200K of files... I don't think
there could have been an old core.. <shrug>
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vishnu
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response 5 of 47:
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May 1 19:39 UTC 1994 |
Hey, wait a sec, I deleted my old sent_mail
things from pine. That would do it.
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carson
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response 6 of 47:
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May 1 19:42 UTC 1994 |
thanks to those commands, I found a good load of stuff that simple
!ls -f -l didn't show! Now I've zipped it and stuck it in my main
directory! Thanks popcorn!
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srw
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response 7 of 47:
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May 1 20:04 UTC 1994 |
300K ? I know we have a disk crunch, but I think that's asking too much
of the users. I thought we were shooting for 1MB. Of course it is true
that nearly everyone on /home is below 1MB.
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popcorn
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response 8 of 47:
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May 1 22:02 UTC 1994 |
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raven
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response 9 of 47:
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May 1 22:06 UTC 1994 |
I don't think 300K is a bad goal. I only use 56K myself, the secret
is to download mail every two weeks, not store any large text documents on
Grex, and never store bianaries for longer than the time it takes to download
them to your home machine.
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kentn
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response 10 of 47:
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May 1 23:36 UTC 1994 |
Hey let's all use 1 MB! C'mon. Until we get more disk space this
idea of shooting for 1 MB per user is stupid. No wonder we can't
enter responses in the bbs. Use what you absolutely need to use.
I'll bet that most of the people using more than 300K don't absolutely
need everything that's there. I know a lot of things are handy to
have around, but I've deleted my /bin directory and have been doing
without because I found it unconscionable to use more than most people
when our /home partition is so often starved for space.
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popcorn
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response 11 of 47:
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May 2 00:30 UTC 1994 |
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scg
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response 12 of 47:
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May 2 02:43 UTC 1994 |
I tend to accumulate qute a bit of mail and then download it every month
or so. To download it any more often than that would make it hard to
check what peolple were replying to, but I don't generally need stuff
around that's more than a month old. Last time I cleared out my mail
directory I was around 850K, which I see now would put me in the top ten,
but I see that I am now just over 200. One important destinction for how
much disk usage is acceptable is whether somebody uses Grex as their
primary mail address. Those who do would be expected to have more mail
files sitting around.
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gerund
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response 13 of 47:
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May 2 05:49 UTC 1994 |
Re #12- This is my problem too.
The main reason my disk usage is in the 300's is that I save mail.
I subscribe to a mailing list and the info I get is important to me.
I only download at the beginning of each month, but I'm having a
little trouble for some reason getting my term to download over the
internet. I guess I'll just have to make the ld call and get this
stuff outa here.
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kentn
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response 14 of 47:
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May 2 06:18 UTC 1994 |
Browse the index here in info and see if there isn't an item
for getting file transfers to work. Maybe you can save yourself
the ld charges.
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srw
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response 15 of 47:
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May 2 07:00 UTC 1994 |
Well I have to agree that lower limits are needed for now. I reduced my
to 363 from somewhere in the 500's, but this is really painful.
I had no idea we were seriously trying for such small user areas.
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gerund
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response 16 of 47:
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May 2 07:19 UTC 1994 |
Re #15- Right now it doesn't look like we can afford NOT to try for such
small user areas.
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popcorn
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response 17 of 47:
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May 2 11:42 UTC 1994 |
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rcurl
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response 18 of 47:
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May 2 15:46 UTC 1994 |
This Item reminds me that I would suggest that it would be useful to
include simple directory and file manipulations in the newuser information
and tutorials. I thought the most helpful thing to me, in the "early"
days, was to discover "where I was", using pwd, cd, ls, etc.
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carson
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response 19 of 47:
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May 2 17:21 UTC 1994 |
(probably not the best place to ask, but...)
what does "pwd" do?
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jdg
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response 20 of 47:
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May 2 19:17 UTC 1994 |
"Print Working Directory"
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rcurl
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response 21 of 47:
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May 2 19:26 UTC 1994 |
Try it. That's where you "live". Then try a cd .. , which
will move you "up" to the /home directory . Then, try a ls .
That's where everyone *else* lives. You go home with just an
isolated cd . It is very informative to explore one's
environment this way.
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bdp
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response 22 of 47:
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May 2 21:12 UTC 1994 |
(you have to be in a shell for the above commands to work, I believe)
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popcorn
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response 23 of 47:
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May 2 22:51 UTC 1994 |
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scg
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response 24 of 47:
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May 3 02:45 UTC 1994 |
"pwd" is equivilant to "cd" in DOS without any arguments. However, "cd"
alone in Unix will return you to your home directory.
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