When I first installed Mandriva 2006 less than 2 months ago, I installed my prorams and set up my repositories by following the guidelines in “Getting The Most From Mandriva”, which was a great help. After getting just about every program I needed things were fine. Today, I went into Mandriva Linux Control Center and looked through the list of software that is available for me to install, because I thought I would see if there were any other programs in addition to the ones that I have that I might. Originally - after I had installed all the programs and set up the repositories, the “Software Packages Installation” window told me that I had 'free disk space' of in excess of 4400 MBs (presumably, this is the amount of additional free space reserved for programs that I might want to download in addion to the ones I already have). Today, on checking, I had only 2031 MBs of available 'free disk space' for additional programs. I had since installed a few small programs in addition to my original programs, but absolutely nothing like 2369 MBs, as is the discrepancy. My overall free disk space, according to “KdiskFree” shows that I have 66.3 GBs of free space, which is only marginally, less than I had to begin with, so I thinking, I have not lost any considerable HD space at all. I'm just a bit confused by this 'free space' issue as far as “Software Packages Installation” is concerned. Please see attached screenshots of my “KdiskFree” & “Software Packages Installation” window. Many thanks. David.
EDIT: Firstly, I think I may have made a mistake with my original estimate of how much free space I had for additional programs. I said I had in excess of 4400 MBs. thinking about it, it was nearer 3800 MBs. I have just looked at the total size of all my programs and the associated programs that I would have to remove to satisfy dependencies - it amounts to 1837 MBs. This would explain the shortfall almost to the megabyte! Wow! Those installed programs & the associated programs to satisfy dependencies sure do add up! I must admit, I did not realise that the relatively small number of programs I have installed could command so much space. Well, you live and learn I suppose.
the reason for the largly differing amounts of free space is: different partitions have different amounts of free space on them, partition list partition for user data (usually hda3 (i think)) swap partition (usually hda2 (i think)) partition for Mandriva (usually hda1 (i think)) hd = harddisk a = harddisk number (a = primary master, b = primary slave, c = secondary master, or d = secondary slave) number = partition number on HDD although a bootloader is usuall hda1, but dependant on how your system is set up, these values can change
Hmmm, interesting! Actually, I have just rechecked the “Software Packages Installation” window, and it now tells me that I have only 780 MBs of 'disk free space' left for the installation of additional programs - it was, as I have said, 2031 MBs. I have not installed any programs since, so, in the space of about 40 minutes, I seem to have lost 1251 MBs of free space! I hope this isn't truly accurate, because I appear to be left with a relatively small amount of free space, should I want to install further programs.
Please run the following and post the results: Code: df -h ...'df' as in 'disk free', 'h' as in 'human-readible'
Many thanks, AT. Here are the results: Code: [david@localhost ~]$ su Password: [root@localhost david]# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hdb1 5.8G 5.3G 261M 96% / /dev/hdb6 67G 235M 67G 1% /home /dev/hda1 39G 12G 27G 31% /mnt/windows [root@localhost david]# In addition, I have attached a screenshot of my up to the minute "KDiskFree".
