Updating when short of disk space

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Updating when short of disk space

Unread post by davidme » 2021-07-20, 09:23

Yesterday Pale Moon announced it would update itself to 29.3.0. When I started the (Windows) computer again, the Pale Moon executable file had disappeared. :shock: The profile was there and the FEBE backups too.
After some intranquility, I thought it was probably because the available disk space in that disk drive was about 200 MB. I deleted some files and downloaded the last installer (using another browser). When run, it installed Pale Moon and all my addons and settings are back in place. :)
I see now that https://www.palemoon.org/download.shtml explicitly asks for "At least 300 MB of free (uncompressed) disk space"

What I am trying to communicate is that I'd have liked that, if Pale Moon can't update for lack of space, it would have failed in a more graceful way than deleting the executable and removing the Pale Moon entries from the desk menus. I don't know how it could be done, but it would have saved me some distress.

Anyway, thanks for the work on the browser.

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Re: Updating when short of disk space

Unread post by New Tobin Paradigm » 2021-07-20, 09:33

Download more disk space.

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Re: Updating when short of disk space

Unread post by Pentium4User » 2021-07-20, 10:35

You should at least have 1 GB or more free.
If the full installer is being downloaded, it need some space.
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Re: Updating when short of disk space

Unread post by stevenpusser » 2021-07-20, 20:12

Holy moly, can't you delete or move stuff off that partition to make more room? Linux filesystems perform worse if they don't have at least 10% free.

How many Windows updates or restore points are on that partition?

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Re: Updating when short of disk space

Unread post by Lunokhod » 2021-07-21, 02:03

In Linux you could do something like this:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/811 ... on-in-bash

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$ echo $(($(stat -f --format="%a*%S" .)))
$ echo $(($(stat -f --format="%a*%S" .)/10**6))
So presumably there might be some Windows equivalent. (I could probably search something but couldn't test if it works as expected except perhaps in Wine :) )
And you always see this pacman message: "checking available disk space" so some "installers" do this.
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Re: Updating when short of disk space

Unread post by Moonchild » 2021-07-21, 07:29

Lunokhod wrote:
2021-07-21, 02:03
So presumably there might be some Windows equivalent.
Yeah, it's called "explorer" or "not ignoring the warnings Windows will give you repeatedly when running low on disk space"
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