Ooo2.0 space concern solved

2005-10-26 Thread Mark Grieveson
Thanks to everyone for their help on this one. I discovered that the space concern, and the timing of my installing the OOo2.0 program, was merely a co-incidence. I had installed a backup program, backup-manager, which, unbeknownst to me, was writing backups in the /var/archives directory. I

Re: OOo2.0 space concern

2005-10-25 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Mark Grieveson wrote: Also, an hour ago I entered the command "du --max-depth=1 -m/ | sort -g", and it's still pondering this. Did you check your .xsession-errors file? For me whenever something like this happens, the culprit usually is .xsession-errors. raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi ht

Re: OOo2.0 space concern

2005-10-25 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 05:33:31PM -0700, Bill Wohler wrote: > kamaraju kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Mark Grieveson wrote: > >> > >> 300 MB of space would have been fine. However, before the install, > >> I had over 10 (ten) GBs of space left on my 40 GB drive. Afterward, > >> I

Re: OOo2.0 space concern

2005-10-25 Thread Bill Wohler
kamaraju kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Mark Grieveson wrote: >> >> 300 MB of space would have been fine. However, before the install, >> I had over 10 (ten) GBs of space left on my 40 GB drive. Afterward, >> I was down to 1 (one) GB left; so, something went wrong somewhere. >> Is ther

Re: OOo2.0 space concern

2005-10-25 Thread Paul E Condon
On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 12:35:54AM -0400, Mark Grieveson wrote: ... > down to 1 (one) GB left; so, something went wrong somewhere. Is there a > way to list files by filesize? A program, or command similar to "ls" > that lists files, but sorts them in order of filesize? Try running the follow

Re: OOo2.0 space concern

2005-10-25 Thread Andreas Rippl
On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 11:05:08AM -0400, Mark Grieveson wrote: > >300 MB of space would have been fine. However, before the install, I > >had over 10 (ten) GBs of space left on my 40 GB drive. Afterward, I > >was down to 1 (one) GB left; so, something went wrong somewhere. Is > >there a way

Re: OOo2.0 space concern

2005-10-25 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 01:58:11AM -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > Mark Grieveson wrote: > > > > > > >300 MB of space would have been fine. However, before the install, I > >had over 10 (ten) GBs of space left on my 40 GB drive. Afterward, I > >was down to 1 (one) GB left; so, something we

Re: OOo2.0 space concern

2005-10-25 Thread Andy Streich
On Tuesday 25 October 2005 08:05 am, Mark Grieveson wrote: > > 300 MB of space would have been fine. However, before the install, I > > had over 10 (ten) GBs of space left on my 40 GB drive. Afterward, I > > was down to 1 (one) GB left; so, something went wrong somewhere. Is > > there a way to l

re: OOo2.0 space concern

2005-10-25 Thread Mark Grieveson
300 MB of space would have been fine. However, before the install, I had over 10 (ten) GBs of space left on my 40 GB drive. Afterward, I was down to 1 (one) GB left; so, something went wrong somewhere. Is there a way to list files by filesize? A program, or command similar to "ls" that list

Re: OOo2.0 space concern

2005-10-24 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Mark Grieveson wrote: 300 MB of space would have been fine. However, before the install, I had over 10 (ten) GBs of space left on my 40 GB drive. Afterward, I was down to 1 (one) GB left; so, something went wrong somewhere. Is there a way to list files by filesize? A program, or command

OOo2.0 space concern

2005-10-24 Thread Mark Grieveson
I did this, and it works quite well. But it took up a huge amount of space on my harddrive. -Mark I doubt that the "unofficial" Debian distribution is any smaller. The OOo2.0 distribution takes ~284MB (OOo2.0 shipped with stripped executable files) compared to ~219MB for OOo1.1.5 (which was