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rmcellig · Posted: Thu 12 Jul 2012, 16:51 Post subject: Save file clarification

My save file is always running low (red instead of green). I can't figure out why. My understanding is that the save file saves only what is in my root directory? As far as I know, my root directory has hardly anything in it. I make a point of saving to mnt/home instead or to an another partition or drive on my computer.

duke93535 · Posted: Thu 12 Jul 2012, 17:26 Post subject:

Any thing you change or add is saved to the save-file. Not just your /root. Of course you can symbolic link to other accessible locations. The only thing then being saved is the link.

Look at your /initrd/pup_rw to see what is in the save-file.

rmcellig · Posted: Thu 12 Jul 2012, 17:29 Post subject:

Thanks I will take a look. I always wanted to know what exactly is going into my save file. Thanks again!!

mcewanw · Joined: 16 Aug 2007 Posts: 2252 Location: New Zealand

rmcellig · Posted: Thu 12 Jul 2012, 18:45 Post subject:

My save file indicator is now green. Here are the contents of my save file.

sfeeley · Joined: 14 Feb 2010 Posts: 807

I find that the cache of my browser tends to fill things up. You can purge the browser cache, and reduce its size

rmcellig · Posted: Fri 13 Jul 2012, 14:59 Post subject:

Thanks. I totally forgot about my browser cache.

Flash · Posted: Fri 13 Jul 2012, 16:50 Post subject:

If you're using SeaMonkey, you can tell SeaMonkey to put its cache in /tmp so that the cache is not saved. In SeaMonkey, go to Edit -> Preferences -> Advanced -> Cache, click the Choose folder button and navigate to /tmp

rmcellig · Posted: Fri 13 Jul 2012, 17:10 Post subject:

Thanks! So just to be clear, aside from not saving anything in my root directory, is there anything else I need to consider in order that my bars are always a solid green?

One more thing. When I am in puppy, is there a way to tell which save file I am saving too?

Karl Godt · Joined: 20 Jun 2010 Posts: 3956 Location: Kiel,Germany

rmcellig · Posted: Fri 13 Jul 2012, 20:43 Post subject:

Thanks again for the explanation.

Barkin · Joined: 12 Aug 2011 Posts: 678

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=605794#605794

BTW If you are using FireFox, as default it will incrementally download a store of forbidden URLs, ("urlclassifier3.sqlite"), which is about 35Mb, or more

darkcity · Joined: 23 May 2010 Posts: 2436 Location: near here

more savefile fun here-
http://puppylinux.org/wikka/SaveFile

also I've add resize page, using much of the info here - thank s everyone

http://puppylinux.org/wikka/ResizeSaveFile

jpeps · Joined: 31 May 2008 Posts: 3220

You can search /root for various caches. There's one for openoffice, gnome-player, adobe, etc... Create symlinks for large directories like .mozilla folder, or files like libflashplayer. I included a button in access-finder that shows me the size & location of all caches.

greengeek · Joined: 20 Jul 2010 Posts: 2407 Location: New Zealand