Zorin downloads

After I download Zorin updates I always get information about the size (f.i. 250 Mb) of it. Is that the nett addition after removal of all non invalid stuff? In other words, has the remaining free capacity of my hard disk been reduced by that size?

It depends on the package - remember downloads may rely on other dependencies so it is something I am not absolutely clear on but here is how you can tell.

1. Before downloading and installing updates, launch GParted, highlight the '/' partition and you will get your current used and free space or use 'Disks' which details your disk usage data.

2. Download the updates and run the check again.

Thank you. I'll do that next time.

Okay, I used Disks - should be 'Disk Usage Analyser' under Menu | System Tools

If you are running on a live disk this happens based on how much RAM you have on the computer.

Some commands that might help us narrow down the issue is as follows.

Code:

df -h
mount
free -m

Pretty sure something here will give us some insight. Go ahead and copy and paste this into terminal and post the output back here =]

Hope this helps!

Hi Linx,
Below is the result. I don't quite understand what I see. Should I repeat this action after a download and see the difference under free memory?

Code:

hennie@hennie-System-Product-Name:~$ free -m
                  total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:          3608       3418        190        208        248       2154
-/+ buffers/cache:       1014       2593
Swap:         2047          0       2047

Yes, it would be helpful if you ran it after you had completed the commands when you are having the issues, All three of the commands, "df -h; mount; free -m"

And the important information from the free -m in your case is the free "2593", meaning you have ~2.5GB free memory.

The result of all three should be something like this.

Code:

Linx@K54C:~$ df -h
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1       224G   54G  170G  25% /
none            4.0K     0  4.0K   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
udev            3.9G  4.0K  3.9G   1% /dev
tmpfs           789M  1.3M  788M   1% /run
none            5.0M     0  5.0M   0% /run/lock
none            3.9G   84K  3.9G   1% /run/shm
none            100M   36K  100M   1% /run/user
/dev/sda1       224G   54G  170G  25% /home
Linx@K54C:~$ mount
/dev/sda1 on / type btrfs (rw,subvol=@)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
none on /sys/fs/cgroup type tmpfs (rw)
none on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw)
none on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw)
none on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw)
udev on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=0620)
tmpfs on /run type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,size=10%,mode=0755)
none on /run/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,size=5242880)
none on /run/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
none on /run/user type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,size=104857600,mode=0755)
none on /sys/fs/pstore type pstore (rw)
/dev/sda1 on /home type btrfs (rw,subvol=@home)
binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
systemd on /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd type cgroup (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,none,name=systemd)
gvfsd-fuse on /run/user/1000/gvfs type fuse.gvfsd-fuse (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=brandon)
Linx@K54C:~$ free -m
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:          7887       3761       4126        167          1       2829
-/+ buffers/cache:        930       6957
Swap:            0          0          0
Linx@K54C:~$


Hi Swarfendor,
Yesterday I got an update size of 120,5 MB. Upfront I ran Gparted and I saw that /dev/sdb6 had a used part of 10,26 GiB. After downloading the update and restarting my computer this figure had gone up to 10,70 GiB. So, this tells me that the 120,5 Mb content of the update results in an increase of the used part of 440 Mb. Is my conclusion correct? What is going wrong here?

@Linx
Using the commands you suggested before and after the update resulted to my surprise in a 415 higher free memory figure and a 156 higher free buffer/cache figure. I don't understand this outcome. The figures should be lower in any case, right?

High it could be that coding has improved and less lines being used? Just pure speculation on my part!