On Monday 27 August 2007, Federico Mena Quintero said:
On Sun, 2007-08-26 at 07:57 +0300, Cristea Bogdan wrote:
My home partition is almost full althow the files I created are not so big. My guess is that applications have created their own files. How can I delete these files without affecting my system?
Try the "baobab" tool; it gives you a graphical breakdown of how your hard drive is being used. It has been very helpful for me to free up some space in my laptop --- discovered a really old mail folder once, then some ISOs I forgot I had downloaded.
And a couple of KDE tools for this task you might want to know about: KDirStat, the do-everything-and-then-some utility from our very own Stefan Hundhammer - available in the KDE:Backports repository - homepage: http://kdirstat.sourceforge.net/ Filelight: does less but wears more lipstick, available from KDE:Community - homepage: http://www.methylblue.com/filelight/ See http://software.opensuse.org/search if you're not used to adding repositories yet, and the text below that explains how to set up 1-Click Install for released versions of openSUSE. Will -- Desktop Engineer KDE Team -- Draft 1-Click Install guide: " Members of the openSUSE community have made it possible to for you to easily obtain packages from the openSUSE Build Service using 1-Click Install links returned by this search engine. But in order to use this new capability, you'll need to add it to your openSUSE 10.2 or older installation. To do this, follow these instructions 1. Start YaST2 and go to 'Installation Source'. 2. Click 'Add' and add the appropriate repository URL for your SUSE: *) openSUSE 10.2: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/openSUSE:/Tools/openSUSE_10.2 *) SUSE Linux 10.1: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/openSUSE:/Tools/SUSE_Linux_10.1 *) SUSE Linux 10.0: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/openSUSE:/Tools/SUSE_Linux_10.0 3. Click 'Finish'. 4. In YaST2, go to 'Software Management'. 5. Install yast2-metapackage-handler: In the Search field, enter 'yast2-metapackage-handler'. 6. Check the box for the package found, then click Accept. The 1-Click Install handler is installed. After installation completes, return to http://software.opensuse.org/search and you can now use the handy 1-Click Install links to install the software you find. " -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org