Wednesday, 29 April 2020

About Asteroids, Radio, Scienza and Twitter

When I ask science, it answers me... <3

Wednesday, 22 April 2020

How to free HDD space

I had difficult to access on my desktop on Ubuntu 19.10.

  • As first step I rebooted the system and accessed Ubuntu in a safe modality and, later, I chose the option to start a terminal in root mode
  • on the device sda8 (/) the space was over (I used df -h):

    In this picture /dev/sda8 has a sufficient space to allow me to start the OS
  • I noticed that time ago I had problem with my notebook camera that didn't work properly
  • then I tried to know how much was the size of the files in /var/log folder to know if something interesting could have come out and I found just that file, related with my camera, was larger in size than it normally could have been, even more then 6 Gigabytes!!

  • the offending file was called uvcdynctrl-udev.log (in the red rectangle above). In the picture it doesn't have a large size (because I proceeded to delete it).

  • I proceeded to delete it (don't panic! It will be recreated again by the system)
  • Then I was able to start again my Ubuntu 19.10

P.S. if you want to try another way to show the space occupied by some file or folder I suggest you to install ncdu:



 

Monday, 13 April 2020

MeteoLecce 2.0

The app is dowloadable from Play Store at the following link


Based on what I've previous said these are two screenshots of the main activity:






Try it... ;-)