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On Tue, 2011-11-08 at 22:01 +0000, James Kilty wrote: > Hello > > I have a warning message telling me I have low disc space left in > "Filesystem root" (1.45MB of 7.45GiB). Some time ago I uninstalled a few > programmes but did not remove them completely. Does this leave them > taking up space? > > I seem to remember one of them was epiphany yet I still have > epiphany-data there. In synaptic, it tells me under installed (auto > removable) there are several including epiphany-data. But it also > includes kde-data and I cannot see me having to uninstall this. > > Is there a way to completely uninstall these "orphaned" programmes > without naming them? > > Otherwise, I have 2 partitions with a reserve install of Ubuntu 8.04 > which I could use to absorb some of the folders or extend / to another > partition. But which one and how? > > usr has 4.4GB with 380,000+ items, lib has just under 1GB, var has > 2/3GB, sys has 621MB. > > I could uninstall some programmes I don't use like abiword and gnumeric > and amarok so should I "completely remove" them or might this lose some > shared dependencies? > > /home has 27.94GiB (3.36 used); the other 2 (Ubuntu 8.04) have 7.45GiB > and 28.6GiB. > > Thanks > > James > -- > James Kilty > http://www.kilty.demon.co.uk > http://unitycontrol.co.uk > http://cornwallbuddhists.org > If you dont need the Docs for each program you can remove them in /usr/ share/docs/ mine has 161 meg. -- ________________________________________________________________________ Regards Kevin Lucas Minions Post Master(Sub) sip:kevin.lucas@xxxxxxxxx www.minionsbandb.co.uk www.tearooms.minionsbandb.co.uk FaceBook Minions_shop Po House, Minions, Liskeard Cornwall PL14 5LE 01579363386 -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq