David,
I did not look up all the links you sent, but I had visited at least
some of them. The messages with the links are here in my Mutt
directory. Thanks.
I understand your advice, and I am not going to reinstall Debian. I
have not been able to figure out how to get the Evolution system
On Thu, 6 Mar 2025 at 15:46, Henrik Ahlgren wrote:
>
> Pro tip: running "sudo apt clean" often frees up significant disk space
> (relatively, in machines with tiny storage capacity) by removing all
> cached package files from /var/cache/apt/archives.
Hi, another pro-tip:
While 'apt-get' does keep
On Thu 06 Mar 2025 at 08:08:55 (+), Russell L. Harris wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 05, 2025 at 11:24:41PM -0600, David Wright wrote:
> > On Thu 06 Mar 2025 at 02:16:15 (+), Russell L. Harris wrote:
> > > Can anyone tell me how to proceed?
> >
> > I'm not sure how this question relates to my post,
Maureen Thomas composed on 2025-03-06 21:24 (UTC-0500):
> There are 15 files in Var and the biggest one is the cache file. Is it
> safe to get rid of the contents of the whole file. It takes up 57% of
> the drive.
The cache directory in /var/ normally grows with every update and upgrade,
hol
On 07/03/2025 09:33, Maureen Thomas wrote:
141523 517216 -rw--- 2 root root 529625088 Nov 7 21:42
./lib/snapd/snaps/gnome-42-2204_176.snap
du -ms /var/lib/snapd
Likely you need to move this directory to another partition.
Maureen Thomas [2025-03-06 20:24:36] wrote:
> I am running Debian 12 fulled updated. I keep getting a message saying that
> my /var is almost full. What can I safely delete to make more room for it.
Depends on all kinds of things. Questions that come to mind:
- Why do you have a separate /var
On 07/03/2025 04:25, Greg Wooledge wrote:
One of the possible answers was to switch to "uBlock Origin Lite",
which is less capable (it can't "phone home" to update its block lists
because Manifest v3 doesn't permit that), but may still be good enough
for most people.
I believed that main limita
Hi,
On Thu, Mar 06, 2025 at 09:33:40PM -0500, Maureen Thomas wrote:
> This is what I got
>
> root@debian:/home/maureen# apt-get clean
You didn't show us the "df" output before you did this so we don't know
how much, if anything, it freed up.
> root@debian:/home/maureen# cd /var
>
> root@debian
> I do have uBlock Origin installed and working in the browsers as well.
> Getting used to this and then using my phone on mobile data is a jarring
> experience!
I don't understand. Why don't you install uBlock Origin on your phone?
Stefan "using uMatrix on his phone"
On 06/03/2025 00:00, Eben King wrote:
On 3/4/25 21:59, Max Nikulin wrote:
In this particular case I do not think it is a drive failure. I suspect
mounting /home was a mistake.
Indeed. "-ro" is not read only when a journal is in play.
In some post on data recovery I have seen a mention that
Maureen Thomas writes:
> There are 15 files in Var and the biggest one is the cache file. Is
> it safe to get rid of the contents of the whole file. It takes up 57%
> of the drive.
Run the command
sudo apt-get clean
That will remove the contents of that file.
--
John Hasler
j...@sugarbi
On 3/6/25 17:24, Maureen Thomas wrote:
I am running Debian 12 fulled updated. I keep getting a message saying
that my /var is almost full. What can I safely delete to make more room
for it. It is an HP Desktop Mo1-F3xxx, 8gb ram, Realtec Audio, AMD
Ryzen 5 5600G. I also have a 2TB Seagate HD
My answer is to block as much as possible at my router. As I run
OpenWrt for my router, I have the Adblock package installed and running.
This way I get blocking applied for other devices such as our phones and
Chromium when it disables uBlock origin.
There are other options I'm aware of but have
On 3/6/25 18:33, Maureen Thomas wrote:
root@debian:/var# find -size +10M -ls
...
I prefer:
2025-03-06 18:55:31 root@laalaa ~/laalaa.tracy.holgerdanske.com
# cat /etc/debian_version ; uname -a
11.11
Linux laalaa 5.10.0-33-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.10.226-1 (2024-10-03)
x86_64 GNU/Linux
2025-03-
On Fri, Mar 07, 2025 at 02:41:33 +, Andy Smith wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 06, 2025 at 09:33:40PM -0500, Maureen Thomas wrote:
> > root@debian:/home/maureen# cd /var
> >
> > root@debian:/var# du -sh*
> >
> > du: invalid option -- '*'
>
> Missing space between 'h' and '*' so the '*' was treated as a
This is what I got
root@debian:/home/maureen# apt-get clean
root@debian:/home/maureen# cd /var
root@debian:/var# du -sh*
du: invalid option -- '*'
Try 'du --help' for more information.
root@debian:/var# du sh
du: cannot access 'sh': No such file or directory
root@debian:/var# du -sh
3.7G
Hi,
On Thu, Mar 06, 2025 at 09:24:20PM -0500, Maureen Thomas wrote:
> There are 15 files in Var and the biggest one is the cache file. Is it safe
> to get rid of the contents of the whole file. It takes up 57% of the
> drive.
Do not go deleting files in /var; you don't know enough about their
p
There are 15 files in Var and the biggest one is the cache file. Is it
safe to get rid of the contents of the whole file. It takes up 57% of
the drive.
On 3/6/25 9:00 PM, Eben King wrote:
On 3/6/25 20:24, Maureen Thomas wrote:
I am running Debian 12 fulled updated. I keep getting a messa
On Thu, Mar 06, 2025 at 20:24:36 -0500, Maureen Thomas wrote:
> I am running Debian 12 fulled updated. I keep getting a message saying that
> my /var is almost full. What can I safely delete to make more room for it.
> It is an HP Desktop Mo1-F3xxx, 8gb ram, Realtec Audio, AMD Ryzen 5 5600G. I
>
On 3/6/25 20:24, Maureen Thomas wrote:
I am running Debian 12 fulled updated. I keep getting a message saying
that my /var is almost full. What can I safely delete to make more room
for it.
First, find out where the space is being used. Something like baobab
might be useful. It might the
I am running Debian 12 fulled updated. I keep getting a message saying
that my /var is almost full. What can I safely delete to make more room
for it. It is an HP Desktop Mo1-F3xxx, 8gb ram, Realtec Audio, AMD
Ryzen 5 5600G. I also have a 2TB Seagate HD plugged in for backups.
Any help will
On Fri, 7 Mar 2025 at 00:41, Dan Purgert wrote:
> On Mar 07, 2025, David wrote:
> > The wikipedia page [1] regarding "1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate" says:
> > The raw value has different structure for different vendors and is often
> > not meaningful as a decimal number. For some drives, this number
On Mar 07, 2025, David wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Mar 2025 at 10:03, Dan Purgert wrote:
> > On Mar 02, 2025, Eben King wrote:
>
> > > [...]
> > > ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED
> > > WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
> > > 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 082 064 006
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songbird writes:
> i currently use firefox and have mostly been ok with it.
>
> would like to try something else.
>
> currently running testing.
>
> any that have any filtering capabilities? yt and a few
> other sites are intolerable without a decent blocker.
>
>
> songbird
If you wer
Hi,
On Thu, Mar 06, 2025 at 12:32:33PM -0500, songbird wrote:
> i currently use firefox and have mostly been ok with it.
>
> would like to try something else.
As far as I'm aware every alternative to Firefox is one or more of:
- Chromium, so strictly worse
- Based on Chromium, so strictly
On Thu, Mar 06, 2025 at 21:50:27 +0100, KISER JD wrote:
> The Chromium-based browsers will soon lose many adblock capabilities due to
> Manifest V3.
>
When I updated google-chrome-stable the other day, it informed me
that it was disabling uBlock Origin. Thus began my own search for
some answers
On Thu, Mar 6, 2025, at 18:32, songbird wrote:
> i currently use firefox and have mostly been ok with it.
>
> would like to try something else.
>
> currently running testing.
>
> any that have any filtering capabilities? yt and a few
> other sites are intolerable without a decent blocker.
>
Bret Busby wrote:
> On 7/3/25 01:32, songbird wrote:
> >i currently use firefox and have mostly been ok with it.
> >
> >would like to try something else.
> >
> >currently running testing.
> >
> >any that have any filtering capabilities? yt and a few
> > other sites are intolera
On 2025-03-06 12:32, songbird wrote:
i currently use firefox and have mostly been ok with it.
would like to try something else.
currently running testing.
any that have any filtering capabilities? yt and a few
other sites are intolerable without a decent blocker.
songbird
On 7/3/25 01:32, songbird wrote:
i currently use firefox and have mostly been ok with it.
would like to try something else.
currently running testing.
any that have any filtering capabilities? yt and a few
other sites are intolerable without a decent blocker.
songbird
Try t
On Thu, Mar 06, 2025 at 09:59:47 -0500, Eben King wrote:
> Yeah. Many of the packages in deborphan's output are things I actually
> want to keep, and I think that that if you remove something, all of its
> requirements are still installed. Unless there's a smart package
> manager that goes throug
On 3/6/25 00:21, David Wright wrote:
On Wed 05 Mar 2025 at 17:04:12 (-0500), Eben King wrote:
On 3/5/25 09:22, Runamile Czyborra wrote:
my df -hl / is at 8.7G/11G=89% after sudo apt update && sudo apt install
python3 pip && sudu pip3 install vosk in my crouton and what do you use
to ergonomi
On 2025-03-06, Max Nikulin wrote:
>
> SMART long test (requested when system high load is not expected) is a
> tool that may help to reveal issues with a disk earlier and give you
> more time to find a replacement and to schedule down time. Certainly a
> disk may still fail unexpectedly despite
On Thu, Mar 06, 2025 at 15:21:32 +0100, 🦓 wrote:
> what would i want to sudo aptitude purge here to free 1 gig?
Why are you assuming that the space you want can be freed by removing
packages?
For the vast majority of people, if disk space is running low, it's
because *data* files are piling up, a
about deborphan am i havin da same sentiment plus hard time
tryna interpret da deborphan decimals due 2 my insufficient
rtfm of manpages.debian.org/bookworm/deborphan/deborphan.1.en.html
(debian)czyborra@localhost:~$ sudo aptitude install deborphan
[…] Unpacking dialog (1.3-20190211-1) ... Set
On Mon 03 Mar 2025 at 17:55:59 (-0800), David Christensen wrote:
> I have always wondered if the decimal numbers in the smartctl(8)
> "RAW_VALUE" column are actual event counts, or a decimal
> representation of some binary bit field whose correct interpretation
> only the manufacturer knows (?).
"Russell L. Harris" writes:
> On Wed, Mar 05, 2025 at 11:24:41PM -0600, David Wright wrote:
>>On Thu 06 Mar 2025 at 02:16:15 (+), Russell L. Harris wrote:
>>> Can anyone tell me how to proceed?
>>
>>I'm not sure how this question relates to my post, to which it's attached.
>>I don't know what
settings -> settings manager -> default applications
in xfce4 fixed the problem.
(Editing the mimeapps.list file has no effect)
Thanks to everyone who took the time to answer me.
--
Gerard
Created with Mutt 2.2.1
under Debian Linux BO
Cindy Sue Causey writes:
> As I tried to say, I'm not sure if that's what you mean about accessing
> Based on personal purging experience, those two Evolution config and
> data storage locations stayed in place when I removed Evolution for
> some forgotten reason. Their data was still safely in p
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