Why so big?

[Karl Larsen]

steve wrote:
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> |> Karl Larsen wrote:
> |> |     I loaded this Ubuntu system with a Live CD which was close to 700
> |> | MBytes. It has been updated a lot and is the Gutsy version. I was just
> |> | checking and the hard drive has
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> |> |     6,796,024,000 Bytes now! It is getting bigger every day. I
> wonder if
> |> | it will end?
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> |> | Karl
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> |> If im not mistaken the base install size is in the vicinity of 2gb, your
> |> closer to 7.  you install extra stuff, LAMP, KDE, etc?
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> | You can get a pretty good idea of where your disk space is going with
> | baobab .
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> wow. learn something new every day, wonder who in the world thought up
> that vague name......gotta be  nik or acronym for something.......
> what........ i have NO idea lol
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> - --
> Steve Reilly
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    I discovered this was right under my nose but never used. It is 
located at Applications - Disk Usage Analyser. Now using it I am 
confused by what it says.  It says that my load of version 7.10 is very 
wasteful of disk space. For example it says my system is 2.5 GB and very 
poor disk usage.

    But I used the old df and got this:

Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda8              9187068   6795608   1924776  78% /

This I wrote as 6795608000 bytes, and it is 6.8 GB. It appears that df 
is wrong.


Karl

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	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
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