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On 2014-09-02 13:52, Alexandros Drymonitis wrote:
On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 2:41 PM, IOhannes m zmoelnig zmoelnig@iem.at wrote:
On 2014-09-02 10:44, Alexandros Drymonitis wrote:
check what you have, think what you will never use and throw it away.
Is all this stuff going to be in /usr/bin ? Where should I look? I'm a complete "amateur" in Linux.
when i say "throw away" i do *not* mean that you should go and start to manually delete files in /usr/bin/
- the files in there won't give much disk-space.
e.g. my /usr/bin/libreoffice is really just a symlink to /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/soffice, which means, that deleting /usr/bin/libreoffice will free a handful of bytes (hard to guess exactly; most likely less than 64 bytes in total!)
more important:
- manually deleting files in /usr/bin is a good start to completely
brick your system, esp. if you are an "amateur linux cracksman".
thus:
- fire up your favourite packagemanager.
- skim through the packages installed.
- find those you don't like.
- mark them for deletion (your package manager will/should complain if
you have marked a package for deletion which is necessary for other packages to function properly)
- apply your changes.
iirc, you have been experimenting quite a lot with various linux distributions in the last months. so by now, you should have a favourite package manager for Debian-derived systems (and know how to use it). if not, you should spend the time to acquaint yourself with one (i'd suggest "aptitude" in interactive mode, but others will work as well)
in the meantime, you might want to start thinking about why you have an 8GB disk and you only see 3.5GB (on two partitions).
- maybe you are not using the emmc module at all
How can that be? It's the only hard drive Odroid has on it.
- maybe there is a large unused/unpartioned space on the emmc
module. - maybe you bought an 8GB module but only got a 4GB one.
There's a hand written 8 on the module, I hope I got what I ordered...
tja...
in any case, check $ cat /proc/partitions
It gives me this: major minor #blocks name
179 0 7634944 mmcblk0 179 1 131584 mmcblk0p1 179 2 3570688 mmcblk0p2 179 24 512 mmcblk0rpmb 179 16 4096 mmcblk0boot1 179 8 4096 mmcblk0boot0
ok, this is not that bad. it seems indeed that your disk has 8GB (approx; it says 7.6GB), and that it has 2 usable partitions (o size 3.5GB and 128MB), which explains why you cannot see much of the disk.
you could repartition your disk, but i won't guide you through that via email (as it's too easy to brick the system).
fgmasdr IOhannes