[olpc-help] Greetings.. could use some help cleaning out cruft.

OLPC Community Support community-support at lists.laptop.org
Tue Sep 20 09:16:52 EDT 2011


If there's nothing in the journal you wish to save, you might consider doing
an install rather than an update:

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Release_notes/11.2.0#Installation


On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 8:25 AM, OLPC Community Support <
community-support at lists.laptop.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> My / partition is 99% full.  It's probably the journal.  I can't sit
> here for hours deleting these things individually.  Also, I've
> downloaded most of a recent update but it can't be installed because
> there's no room on the device.  So, I guess I need help figuring out
> three things:
>
> 1) where can i find (at the command line) and delete the downloaded update
> file?
>
> 2) how can i clean out the journal in one go?
>
> 3) what else can I safely delete in order to have room to update the
> machine to the latest version?
>
> Thanks in advance for any advice.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Joshua
>
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