[HLUG] Post more to the website please

[david winterton]

Dear All,
I know this is stating the oblivious, but I will either be there or sending
my apologies Weds, depending how well silaging is going on the farm.

Just the shortest article for the site:
Just as windows gives it's users hours of fun running defrag, linux can
fill it's root partition with older versions of programmes if left
unattended, mine got to 8.5gb (I use Chakra, which is Arch based so the
commands used are Arch) and entirely filled the partition.(/var/cache being
the culpit) Unlike windows however this is not really a problem till it
gets to excess as it means you can reinstate any up graded programme if
'progress' is not to your liking. The answer is simple, if everything is
running to your liking then the command 'pacman -Scc' (without the ' ')
will wipe the lot. this is not recommended.
'pacman -Sc' will wipe all the older copies, but best of all the programme
'paccache' will give you total control over it all.
I am sure those of you far more learned than me will know the commands for
Debain and other O/Ses.

Now I think this is fairly interesting but what makes it fun is with Linux
you can open the root folder, go to /var/cache, open a terminal issue the
commands and see your computer change before your eyes and followed by a
general upgrade 'pacman -Syu' repopulating it the file.


On Sun, May 24, 2015 at 5:59 PM, George DiceGeorge <dicegeorge at hotmail.com>
wrote:

> Everyone on this list knows of many interesting projects
> http://www.hlug.org.uk/inkscape-review/
>
> so why not post one to the website now?
>
> it only takes a few minutes
> ( and wordpress is fab,)))
>
> Please link to longer articles etc
> (then weh we have a few hundred posts
> we can decide on categories and other developments)
>
> There's already been two posts in 2015
> please post more now!
> (yes you dear reader)
>
> George
>
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