freeing up iceweasel .sqlite file size (was: Re: regards the /)
[Sorry for the late post, but thought this might be useful.]
On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 04:24:10PM +0000, Camaleón wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Sep 2011 23:45:00 +0800, lina wrote:
> >> 356M ./.mozilla/firefox
> >> 356M ./.mozilla
(..)
> But I would carefully watch your "/.local/share/Trash" and your Firefox
> profile. Both folders look very big to me, you may have there "erasable"
> files (deleted and/or cached files you can safely remove).
Have a look in your .mozilla/firefox/*default/ directory and you will
notice some big *.sqlite files. They need to be "vacuumed" to free up
space.
Install sqlite (I think it needs to be sqlite3), for lenny:
root@fischer:~# apt-cache policy sqlite3
sqlite3:
Installed: 3.7.3-1~bpo50+1
Candidate: 3.7.3-1~bpo50+1
Version table:
*** 3.7.3-1~bpo50+1 0
200 http://backports.debian.org lenny-backports/main Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
3.5.9-6 0
500 http://ftp.nz.debian.org oldstable/main Packages
Not sure for squeeze, hopefully someone will check it out and correct
me.
Then cd into your ".mozilla/firefox/*default/" directory and issue:
for i in *.sqlite; do echo "VACUUM;" | sqlite3 $i ; done
I need to do this, because of:
root@fischer:~# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda1 1.3G 1.3G 20M 99% /
tmpfs 250M 0 250M 0% /lib/init/rw
udev 10M 680K 9.4M 7% /dev
tmpfs 250M 0 250M 0% /dev/shm
/dev/hda6 2.5G 2.3G 101M 96% /home
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