Re: apt-get update: unnecessary use of disk space

2014-07-07 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 06 iul 14, 23:30:28, Bob Proulx wrote: > Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > Bob Proulx wrote: > > > Of course now with SSDs that standard thinking needs to be thought out > > > again. I haven't seen any benchmark data for full SSDs. I imagine > > > that it will have much flatter performance curves

Re: apt-get update: unnecessary use of disk space

2014-07-06 Thread Bob Proulx
Andrei POPESCU wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > Of course now with SSDs that standard thinking needs to be thought out > > again. I haven't seen any benchmark data for full SSDs. I imagine > > that it will have much flatter performance curves up to very full on > > an SSD. It would super awesome i

Re: apt-get update: unnecessary use of disk space

2014-07-06 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 20 iun 14, 18:54:45, Bob Proulx wrote: > > Of course now with SSDs that standard thinking needs to be thought out > again. I haven't seen any benchmark data for full SSDs. I imagine > that it will have much flatter performance curves up to very full on > an SSD. It would super awesome if

Re: apt-get update: unnecessary use of disk space

2014-06-24 Thread Pascal Hambourg
B a écrit : > Bob Proulx wrote: > >> What do you mean when you say "these blocks won't be free ..." >> without defragmenting? Please explain. If you have references to >> share that explained the details that would be great. > > Just think about this: > * HD original = 1000 > * HD -5%.

Re: apt-get update: unnecessary use of disk space

2014-06-23 Thread Bzzzz
On Sun, 22 Jun 2014 23:24:32 -0600 Bob Proulx wrote: > What do you mean when you say "these blocks won't be free ..." > without defragmenting? Please explain. If you have references to > share that explained the details that would be great. Just think about this: * HD original = 1000 * HD -5%.

Re: apt-get update: unnecessary use of disk space

2014-06-22 Thread Bob Proulx
B wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > completely out of disk space. For that the reasonable amount of > > disk space reserved is an absolute value that a system might need > > on that partitions. That part really shouldn't be a percentage of > > the disk but should be a finite reserved amount. >

Re: apt-get update: unnecessary use of disk space

2014-06-20 Thread Bzzzz
On Fri, 20 Jun 2014 18:54:45 -0600 Bob Proulx wrote: > completely out of disk space. For that the reasonable amount of > disk space reserved is an absolute value that a system might need > on that partitions. That part really shouldn't be a percentage of > the disk but should be a finite reserv

Re: apt-get update: unnecessary use of disk space

2014-06-20 Thread Bob Proulx
Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > If you are interested in retrieving some disk space on this > partition, I would suggest to reduce the percentage of diskspace > which may only be allocated by privileged processes. It is normally > 5% of the diskspace of a partition. In your case this makes ca. 1.8 > GB.

Re: apt-get update: unnecessary use of disk space

2014-06-16 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Chris Bannister wrote, on 06/16/2014 00:27: > On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 11:04:14PM +0200, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: ... >> For the "ext" family of file systems this can be done on the running system. > > The suspense is killing me. Is it a secret? > Of course it's not, we're dealing with FOSS ;-) T

Re: apt-get update: unnecessary use of disk space

2014-06-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 11:04:14PM +0200, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > If you are interested in retrieving some disk space on this partition, I would > suggest to reduce the percentage of diskspace which may only be allocated by > privileged processes. It is normally 5% of the diskspace of a partiti

Re: apt-get update: unnecessary use of disk space

2014-06-15 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
If you are interested in retrieving some disk space on this partition, I would suggest to reduce the percentage of diskspace which may only be allocated by privileged processes. It is normally 5% of the diskspace of a partition. In your case this makes ca. 1.8 GB. To me this seems more than ever n

Re: apt-get update: unnecessary use of disk space

2014-06-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 08:22:55PM +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2,4K Feb 16 11:33 apt-file > drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 14K Jun 15 19:21 archives > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 39M Jun 15 19:25 pkgcache.bin > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 39M Jun 15 19:25 srcpkgcache.bin Ahh!, that

Re: apt-get update: unnecessary use of disk space

2014-06-15 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-06-15 19:59 +0200, Chris Bannister wrote: > Does this seem necessary? > > root@tal:~# apt-get clean > root@tal:~# df -h > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/sda536G 34G 266M 100% / > root@tal:~# apt-get update > [...] > root@tal:~# df -h > Filesystem Si

Re: apt-get update: unnecessary use of disk space

2014-06-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 05:59:20AM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > Hi, > > Does this seem necessary? > > root@tal:~# apt-get clean > root@tal:~# df -h > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/sda536G 34G 266M 100% / > [...] > root@tal:~# apt-get update > Hit http://ftp

Re: apt-get update: unnecessary use of disk space

2014-06-15 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Montag, 16. Juni 2014, 05:59:20 schrieb Chris Bannister: > Hi, Hi Chris, > Does this seem necessary? > > root@tal:~# apt-get clean > root@tal:~# df -h > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/sda536G 34G 266M 100% / > [...] > root@tal:~# apt-get update > Hit http:/

apt-get update: unnecessary use of disk space

2014-06-15 Thread Chris Bannister
Hi, Does this seem necessary? root@tal:~# apt-get clean root@tal:~# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda536G 34G 266M 100% / [...] root@tal:~# apt-get update Hit http://ftp.debian.org jessie InRelease Hit http://security.debian.org jessie/updates InRelease Hi