Duplicate files

[Jonas Norlander]

On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 4:29 PM, Steven Vollom
<stevenvollom at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
>>> Does it grow as I add
>>> applications, or are they put in one of the other storage areas?
>>>
>>
>> New applications are put here (sda2).
>>
> How does one know how much space to allow for the / partition then if
> you place new applications in that space?
>>
>>
>>> When I noticed that of the 50 gb of space that I allocated for the
>>> primary boot partition only 6gb remained, I became worried that I may
>>> not notice as it got close to full, and I would overload the
>>> partition and lock things up.
>>>
>>
>> Obviously there are only 19GB on your / partition, not 50GB.
>>
> then what are the 3.9gb spaces that are mostly empty, like tmpfs.
> Aren't they on the / partition.  And if not, where?  That is over 23gb
> of space.  What would you recommend for a / partition size?  Can I use
> the partition feature and take space from another partition to add to
> the / partition?

As I wrote in another mail in this thread tmpfs is a virtual file
system and it is only using your RAM. It don't take up 3.9 Gb of your
hard disks and it dont take up 3.9 Gb of your RAM. It will grow
dynamical to a _max_ size of 3.9 Gb. And as you see in the output of
the "df -h" command they are almost empty. You have plenty of RAM so
don't worry about that.

/ Jonas