On 13/11/2018 18:17, steve-ALUG@hst.me.uk wrote:
On 09/11/18 19:30, Bev Nicolson wrote:
- Noticing that this PC gets glacially slow occasionally (it probably
means get a new one and soon but bear with me for the moment) I had a look at the hard disk. 77 GB is 84.4% full. I have two partitions though. One 'extended partition', the other a swap partition. Both 3.1
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- What is it full of and how could I clear stuff out, again, safely?
Temporary files. Cruft.
Sorry - glib answers. Firstly, if you keep your machine up-to-date on updates, but don't tidy it up, you are likely to have lots of old kernel files installed. It's easy to see this if you have the synaptic package manager installed. (apt-get install synaptic if you haven't!) start synaptic. On the left hand side select the line saying "Installed" Scroll the right-hand list until you get to entries listed linux. You will probably find entries listed linux-headers, linux-modules and linux-image and possibly linux-tools. These are followed by a version number. These numbers are linux version numbers.
I seem to have an inordinately large amount of headers and images. See link to screenshot below. (Hopefully.) Is this what you mean?
Bev.