disk space

Tech Drive-in: "When you install something in Ubuntu, package files are downloaded for installation but are not automatically deleted after installation is over."

LinuxBSDos: "The image below represents the first step in the disk partitioning process. The light-green empty space where the cursor is represents the disk space.

There are no existing partition on the disk. To create partitions, click on the Edit partitions button."

VMWare on Debian Unstable

London, UK Saturday, August 7th 2010, 16:08 BST

In the past week I've been doing some work on the MongoDB PHP Driver, and while running the test cases I noticed that there are some issues with it when you run out of disk space.

Disk space is always at a premium but how do you handle it when you have a disk or filesystem that's full? After today, you'll know how to boldly go into that dark realm.

If you don't want to step up to a full monitoring solution such as Nagios you can create your own scripts for monitoring the things that you want to monitor, such as disk space.

The following script alerts you when your root partition is almost full:

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Distrowatch: "What if I told you that I was recently running a modern operating system that requires about 5 MB of disk space and about 10 MB of RAM?

That sounds like a stretch, doesn't it, even for Tiny Core Linux?"

BleachBit: "Say you are a polyglot fluent in nine languages, and Ubuntu installs files for 500 languages: that means you are wasting disk space for 491 languages you will never use!

Ridiculous!"

The Linuxologist: "Well at least according to Dell's website. A 1.6GHz Atom CPU, 8GB of disk space armed with Microsoft's latest masterpiece: Ubuntu!"

The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "The method we'll be using for this walkthrough requires a few tools, plenty of disk space and a good deal of patience (most likely).

The two main tools are found in The Coroner's Toolkit (TCT), which you can download for free from the preceding hyperlink"

Chris Jones has a recommendation for those compiling Oracle support into PHP - there's a simple way to reduce the amount of disk space that your Instant Client install uses - a "only what's needed" setup.