No disk space

Forum thread started by chrisp1000 on Fri, 2012-01-13 23:20

Hi I have just updated my alpha 1 to an alpha 3, well done btw. I was about to install the optional packages when I wondered how much of the 10GB partition I had given Haiku, was left so I ran the disk usage app and it said I only had 1GB free. Of a 10GB partition. wtf!?

I installed the optional apps anyway and now I only have 420MB left. of a 10GB partition. Either you guys have done a superb job of fitting GB's of data onto a CD or there is something weird going on. Or I am insane.

Any ideas?
Thanks.

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Comments

Re: No disk space

by kvdman - 2012-01-13 23:57

I was wondering that too. It seems virtual memory is enabled by default on recent builds. If you check virtual memory in the preferences, it will be off, but a swap file is still made! So, just manually delete the file and reboot.

/boot/common/var/swap

Re: No disk space

by chrisp1000 - 2012-01-14 16:52

lol, thanks will try that

Re: No disk space

by chrisp1000 - 2012-01-14 21:44

Thanks. One 8GB swap file deleted :)