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Ubuntu 8.04 free up drive space or make same partation bigger

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I get an madexcept internal error (opening buffer settings)

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Steveo (strykersrealm) said : 		#1

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.7) Gecko/2009030422 Ubuntu/8.04 (hardy) Firefox/3.0.7

Can't see bookmarks - think i need drive spave on the Ubuntu dive

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Best Tom (tom6) said : 		#2

First thing to try is emptying your bin. However this requires some space so it might not be possible.

2nd If you use Thunderbird or Evolution you may be able to empty the waste-bin in there and perhaps compress folders? Again this may require some space to action this so we might have to get back to these 2 steps later!

Have you got a cd you can use as a LiveCd, almost any distro will do? My favourite would be wolvix
http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=wolvix
because it boots fast into a LiveCd and gparted opens fast in it. If not can you download and burn one, Wolvix Hunter is good because its a fairly small download with some good retro-arcade games to play while lettng gparted do it's magic. SliTaz is even smaller but i don't like the games on their old release as much ;)

Reboot your machine and let it try to get back into Ubuntu but when you get to the bootup menu that has several options for Ubuntu choose the line that has "Recovery Mode" at the end. The "Clear some space on my hard-drive" is usually very effective.

If it doesn't let you into Recovery Mode then reboot into a LiveCd and see if you can resize your partitions a bit to give Ubuntu a bit more room. Remember you only really need a linux-swap partition if your Ram is under about 2Gb but the linux-swap only really needs to be just over the size of your Ram if you use Hibernation Mode and you might be able to temporarily remove the linux-swap. Then sort out space in Ubuntu and thn add the linux-swap back in again afterwards.

Ok, so that started with some trivial things and ended up quite serious. There's still a lot you can do but those things tend to clear the most space the quickest, i think.

Good luck and regards from
Tom :)

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Tom (tom6) said : 		#3

"download and burn one"

this would have to be on another machine of course. If you need to use an internet cafe fo that then go for sliTaz cos it's tiny, about 50Mb or so.
http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=slitaz

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Steveo (strykersrealm) said : 		#4

Thanks Tom, that solved my question.

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Tom (tom6) said : 		#5

Brilliant, nicely done. theres a way of clearing the package-manager cache of everything except the important sttuff - i wouldn't try this by hand but the command-line command is good. I just can't remember it. Also most of the options in "Recovery Mode" are worth running about once a month anyway.

Glad to hear it's solved now :)

Good luck and regards from
Tom :)

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Cruncher (ubuntu-wkresse) said : 		#6

That would be:

sudo apt-get clean

and it can sometimes cleanup a considerable amount of space. You can get a quick overview of the available space on all your partitions using the command:

df -x tmpfs
or simply:
df