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... ;-)