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Installed Puppy on USB flash drive; space is disappearing.
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helen1
Joined: 16 Sep 2012 Posts: 1 |
Greetings to everybody, and sorry for my bad English. I installed Slacko Puppy yesterday on my Kingston USB flash drive 1GB. I have installed it from Windows XP using program for installing Linux OS on USB. I installed Chromium and have done some setting about small fonts and resolutions. After that, I have saved all changes and set all remaining space on my USB drive for puppy save file. After reboot, I can see notification in taskbar how much remaining space do I have. I haven't installed anything since than and I didn't downloaded any file, but that remaining space is dropping rapidly. Today, over 10 MB. I am not planning to install anything special because I am using computer just for surfing over the Internet, so I don't know why is this happening? How is that possible? Second question Is there any program (gadget) that can be placed on the desktop to show weather. 
Third question I have problem with Serbian letters in Chromium. Some letters are not correct. That is for the start. Puppy is fast, and that is something I want. 
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muggins
Joined: 20 Jan 2006 Posts: 6660 Location: lisbon |
Browsers are always the first suspect with this as, with a frugal install of puppy, they save their cache to /root directory, which is within your save file. The solution is to move chromiums hidden directory to /mnt/home, then symlink it back to /root. Unfortunately I can´t remember where chromium saves stuff to in /root. I´ll have a look when i get home. See here for more info on keeping a healthy save file. |
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sfeeley
Joined: 14 Feb 2010 Posts: 807 |
for weather and other desktop widgets get pwidgets . For slacko available here http://ftp.nluug.nl/ftp/pub/os/Linux/distr/puppylinux/pet_packages-slacko/ or via the package manager or via quickpets (if slacko has that-- I use lucid )
In addition to what muggins said, on some browsers you can adjust the cache size. Try reducing it a bit. I'm not sure how to do it with chromium. Also if you clear the cache, you'll likely see your savefile increase a bit. |
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rhadon
 Joined: 27 Mar 2008 Posts: 1228 Location: Germany |
Welcome to the forum, helen1.
In this case, muggins solution isn't helpful. But he is right about cache of browsers, also e.g. cache of google earth is very space consuming. A good way to see what's in your save file is to use Gdmap from menu (I think it's menu -> File System -> Gdmap, I'm not in Slacko now). Open -> File System -> initrd -> pup_rw. This represents your save file. About weather, I often used this picture as my wallpaper. With WallRefresh-1.4 it refreshes every ~20min. with a delay of ~1-2 hours. But maybe it' too vague for you. HTH Rolf _________________ Ich verwende "frugal", und das ist gut so. 
Raspberry Pi without Puppy? No, thanks. |
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postfs1
 Joined: 27 Mar 2010 Posts: 831 |
I don't know: those operating systems can give another result or not 
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=648695#648695 _________________
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