[Gllug] Bittorrent temp files

[John Levin]

Lucy Peters wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>     Lucy Peters wrote:
>      > I use Bittorrent to share files and downloaded about 100Mb of
>     files but
>      > I was shocked that it took up more 1Gb of space in my hard drive. I
>      > think it may be the temporary files created by the Bittorrent
>     that took
>      > up the space. Do you know how to get rid of them in order to make the
>      > drive more efficient ?
> 
>     $ rm
> 
> 
> 
>     When I list out to delete the .tmp files and found out that there
>     was only one of them and it was very small size. Do you know what
>     takes out the hard disk space ?
> 
>     Thanks.
> 
> 
>     Lucy
> 

Are you using Transmission for your torrents? I've noticed it seems to 
reserve the full amount of space required for the file in advance.

HTH

John

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