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Re: disappearing space on /home partition
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Statux)
Sun Nov 8 16:45:50 1998
From: "Statux" <statux@bigfoot.com>
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Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1998 21:38:20 -0000
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Netscape sucks anyway :/
-----Original Message-----
From: Wade Naveja <wade@blarg.net>
To: redhat-list <redhat-list@redhat.com>
Date: Sunday, November 08, 1998 9:16 PM
Subject: Re: disappearing space on /home partition
>It turns out to be some sort of bug in the Netscape Communicator cache!
>My cache had grown to 90 Mb in size before I manually deleted the
>files. Erasing the cache through the preferences menu only erased 9 Mb
>- the size I had set the maximum cache size to. Odd and annoying.
>Anybody else
>experiencing this? Is this a documented 'feature'?
>
>I wrote:
>>
>> I posted a similar question a couple of weeks ago and then had all sorts
>> of email problems. I don't know if anybody gave a reply and not enough
>> time has passed to have anything turn up in the archives. So, I'll ask
>> again...
>>
>> Memory on my /home partition appears to be vanishing at about 1% per
>> day. It seems like I never get back all of the space taken up by erased
>> files. For example, If I download a 2 Mb file and then erase it, only
>> 1.9 Mb is freed up (I'm making these numbers up). Has anybody seen
>> anything like this?
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>> --
>> Wade Naveja <wade@blarg.net>
>> http://www.blarg.net/~wade/
>
>Regards to all who offered advice,
>--
>Wade Naveja <wade@blarg.net>
>http://www.blarg.net/~wade/
>
>
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