/home/karl/

[Dotan Cohen]

On 11 May 2010 22:27, Karl Larsen <klarsen1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>     In my quest to stop using a common partition for /home/karl/ I
> tried to put all of /karl/ in the same partition as the one 10.04 has
> failed. I tried $du -h on /home/karl/ and get 33 GB :-P
>
>     This larger than the entire partition for 10.04 system. I think I
> need to take /home/karl/Desktop out first and then see if it will work.
> This IS harder than I thought.
>

You might be able to reduce your home directory's size with a simple command:
$ sudo rm -R *

NOTE: DO NOT DO THIS!!!
I mention it to illustrate the danger of simply blindly running
commands on your computer. A recent thread had a similarly dangerous
"solution" to a similarly simple problem.

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Dotan Cohen

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