No docs on checking disk space usage

[Phil Bull]

Binary package hint: ubuntu-docs

There is no documentation on how to check how much disk space is being used on a particular disk.

[Phil Bull (philbull)]

Assigned to Milo.

[Milo Casagrande (milo)]

Il giorno mer, 25/07/2007 alle 23.15 +0000, Phil Bull ha scritto:
> There is no documentation on how to check how much disk space is being
> used on a particular disk.

Which tool should I describe?

Baobab (Disk Usage Analyzer) or just the right-click in the "Computer"
menu item?

--
Milo Casagrande <email address hidden>

[Phil Bull (philbull)]

The 'basic' option is probably to press System -> Administration -> System Monitor and to select the 'File Systems' tab. Baobab would be the more advanced option, which it might be worth mentioning too.

[Milo Casagrande (milo)]

Il giorno ven, 27/07/2007 alle 21.34 +0000, Phil Bull ha scritto:
> The 'basic' option is probably to press System -> Administration ->
> System Monitor and to select the 'File Systems' tab. Baobab would be the
> more advanced option, which it might be worth mentioning too.

It seems Gutsy as a new feature (maybe is GNOME's...): if you choose
Places -> Computer and then you right click on the partition(s) or
whatever is ther, selcet Properties, you get a nice "cake chart" with
free and used space in two different color...

It's a little longer path to get, but the visual effect is more direct
and nice.

I'm attaching a screenshot (if you don't have Gutsy yet) ;)

--
Milo Casagrande <email address hidden>

[Phil Bull (philbull)]

Ah, that would be much better then! I've got Gutsy running in a VM somewhere, so I'll take a look.

[Milo Casagrande (milo)]

I've worked out a little document for this one. It's in article form.

In my local copy it's in the ubuntu/misc/ directory...

I've also added a new entity in the gnome-menus-ent-C file, I'm attaching also this patch.

[Phil Bull (philbull)]

Hi Milo,

I've taken a look at your article and it's looking good so far. Could you make a few small changes, though?

 * Use <orderedlist> instead of <itemizedlist> for the instructions starting on line 23
 * Use capital letters to start each <listitem>, e.g. <listitem><para>Choose &computer;</para></listitem>
 * 'Cake charts' are more commonly known as 'pie charts' in most English speaking countries

I checked your patch for basic-commands too, and it looks like nixternal committed it a few days ago.

Thanks for all of your work!

[Milo Casagrande (milo)]

Il giorno sab, 28/07/2007 alle 16.22 +0000, Phil Bull ha scritto:
> Hi Milo,
>
> I've taken a look at your article and it's looking good so far. Could
> you make a few small changes, though?

Sure, no problem! ;)

> * Use <orderedlist> instead of <itemizedlist> for the instructions starting on line 23

Ok...

> * Use capital letters to start each <listitem>, e.g. <listitem><para>Choose &computer;</para></listitem>

Ok... English conventions I'm not aware of... :)

> * 'Cake charts' are more commonly known as 'pie charts' in most English speaking countries

Ok!

> I checked your patch for basic-commands too, and it looks like nixternal
> committed it a few days ago.

Oh great! I didn't know that...

I'm working on this too! ;)

Bye!

--
Milo Casagrande <email address hidden>

[Milo Casagrande (milo)]

Here the new version of the document!

[Milo Casagrande (milo)]

I asked on gnome IRC channel about the link to baobab documentation (I didn't insert it), but I got no response... I know to use ghelp style link... but don't know which link baobab doc is... do you have any clue?

[Milo Casagrande (milo)]

Easier than I thought... just inserted baobab...

So this is the final version... ;)

[Phil Bull (philbull)]

I've just read the article and it looks great! Now all we have to do is find somewhere to put it...

I'll email ubuntu-doc to see what other people think. It might be nice to have a 'Disks and Drives' category under 'Files, Folders and Documents'.

Great work again Milo!

[Milo Casagrande (milo)]

Sorry for bringing this up again... I have to write down things that need to be done...

I forgot to remove the "draft" status from "sect1"... now I added also an id to sect2...

[Phil Bull (philbull)]

I found this lying on my hard disk. Might be suitable for 'Disks and Drives', with a bit of work.

[Milo Casagrande (milo)]

I'll take a look at it this evening... been away all day yesterday!

[Milo Casagrande (milo)]

Il giorno dom, 29/07/2007 alle 16.00 +0000, Phil Bull ha scritto:
> I found this lying on my hard disk. Might be suitable for 'Disks and
> Drives', with a bit of work.
>
> ** Attachment added: "Docs on formatting a disk"
> http://launchpadlibrarian.net/8597848/disks.xml

This is a great start point!

I'm starting to look at it!

--
Milo Casagrande <email address hidden>

[Phil Bull (philbull)]

Fix committed, r4204. We now have a new 'disks.xml' file in ubuntu/files-and-docs/C. Great work Milo!

[Daniel Goldsmith (daniel-goldsmith)]

On 7/27/07, Milo Casagrande <email address hidden> wrote:
> Il giorno mer, 25/07/2007 alle 23.15 +0000, Phil Bull ha scritto:
> > There is no documentation on how to check how much disk space is being
> > used on a particular disk.
>
> Which tool should I describe?
>
> Baobab (Disk Usage Analyzer) or just the right-click in the "Computer"
> menu item?
 Or the command line command 'df' ?

Just a thought. . .

[Milo Casagrande (milo)]

Il giorno sab, 18/08/2007 alle 00.07 +0100, Daniel Goldsmith ha scritto:
> Or the command line command 'df' ?

This is already (shortly) explained in the basic-commands section of the
guide.

Bye! :)

--
Milo Casagrande <email address hidden>