Re: [Discuss] Anyone tried Sparkleshare.org yet?

2011-07-01 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss- bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of Ian Levesque The server as it currently exists is a git install sitting on a box with SSH access. So ... Does this mean the client needs to periodically scan the local directory

[Discuss] strange behaviour

2011-07-01 Thread dan moylan
last night, running ubuntu 11.04 on acer d255e, i got a pop-up window advising me that i was running out of disk space. sure enough, df told me that i was at 98% with less that 1GB out of 40 available on /home. so i went to /home, but du -s showed only 21GB in use. ??? i shut down and went to

Re: [Discuss] strange behaviour

2011-07-01 Thread Chris O'Connell
this may be kind of a shot in the dark, but check the maximum size of your swap file? A utility such as this may help: http://windirstat.info/ Good luck, let us know what you find! On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 11:23 AM, dan moylan j...@moylan.us wrote: last night, running ubuntu 11.04 on acer

Re: [Discuss] strange behaviour

2011-07-01 Thread Chris O'Connell
Shoot, sorry, for some reason I hadn't missed the part about this being Linux... I saw the 98 and my brain assumed Windows 98 :-( On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 11:31 AM, Chris O'Connell omegah...@gmail.comwrote: this may be kind of a shot in the dark, but check the maximum size of your swap file? A

Re: [Discuss] strange behaviour

2011-07-01 Thread Matthew Gillen
On 07/01/2011 11:23 AM, dan moylan wrote: last night, running ubuntu 11.04 on acer d255e, i got a pop-up window advising me that i was running out of disk space. sure enough, df told me that i was at 98% with less that 1GB out of 40 available on /home. so i went to /home, but du -s showed

Re: [Discuss] strange behaviour

2011-07-01 Thread Nathan Meyers
Hello Dan, Files that have been deleted but are still open to at least one process can cause exactly this behavior. They don't show up in du because there are no longer directory entries for the files. But some process is holding on to the file, so the space cannot be freed. Killing the process

Re: [Discuss] strange behaviour

2011-07-01 Thread dan moylan
matthew gillen writes: On 07/01/2011 11:23 AM, dan moylan wrote: last night, running ubuntu 11.04 on acer d255e, i got a pop-up window advising me that i was running out of disk space. sure enough, df told me that i was at 98% with less that 1GB out of 40 available on /home. so i went to

Re: [Discuss] strange behaviour

2011-07-01 Thread Matthew Gillen
On 07/01/2011 12:07 PM, dan moylan wrote: apprapos, however, while messing around, i did notice a strange file in /root. note the following: root ~[220] \ls -lFhd .gvfs dr-x-- 2 root root 0 2011-07-01 10:14 .gvfs/ That's a special device file created by Gnome.