That extra 8 contiguous blocks is an awesome idea. I like forward thinking.

I found out what I suspected. When I install FC2 it was a 6GB install because
eventually I will use everything. It has grown to 11GB. My Toshiba Sattelites
20GB HDD will soon be full.

I won't be able to make the meeting on Sunday since I have my children. Seems you
always schedule the meetings on those Sundays.

On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 18:30 , Cyber Source <peter@thecybersource.com> sent:

>defragmenting is not necessary on ext2(3) file system because the file 
>system sets aside 8 contiguous blocks at the end of the file in 
>anticipation of the file's growth, pretty neat trick that keeps the 
>fragmentation to an average of 2 to 5%.
>as for hdd usage, i like the command line with "df -lh", that pretty 
>much says it all. If you installed the kde desktop on your Fedora box 
>too, look in the menu or type "kdf" at a command prompt, theres tons 
>other too but none come to mind right now.
>
>frank@mogosystems.com wrote:
>
>> Is there a graphical interface (Pie chart, meter) that hsows your HDD 
>> usage etc? Is there a defragmenter?
>>
>>
>>
>> *On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 15:27 , Jesse Jarzynka 
>> denisesballs@thecybersource.com> sent:
>>
>> *
>>
>>     The art.gnome.org link takes you to a log in screen? That's odd, every
>>     time i click it, it takes me right there. Try typing it in manually.
>>     -Jesse
>>
>>     On Fri, 2004-10-15 at 18:44 +0000, frank@mogosystems.com
>>     frank@mogosystems.com','','','')>
>>     wrote:
>>     > Thanks for the info. That sounds like a great start.
>>     >
>>     > That link to art.gnome.org doesn't takes me to a log in screen.
>>     >
>>     >
>>     >
>>     > On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 13:52 , Jesse Jarzynka
>>     > denisesballs@thecybersource.com
>>     denisesballs@thecybersource.com','','','')>>
>>     sent:
>>     >
>>     > If you use apt-get, do a 'du -lh' on
>>     > your /var/cache/apt/archives directory. That keeps all the
>>     > rpms you've already installed from apt-get. If it's a
>>     > substantial amount, or if you want to delete them do 'apt-get
>>     > clean'. Another directory to check would be your /tmp,
>>     > although I've never seen much in there, maybe you do. That
>>     > should clear up some space.
>>     > A good place for window borders and icons and such is
>>     > http://art.gnome.org.
>>      They have
>>     some great ones there, if you
>>     > use gnome. I'm not sure if the themes would work in KDE too,
>>     > if that's what you are using. Good luck, -Jesse
>>     >
>>
>>
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