The only reason it might an issue is I keep getting messages about "Seti..." needs 32 MB more space, none is available.

I have looked at my local settings for how much space BOINC Manager can use. It is way up there.

I have looked at the easy simple/ways to reduce space and applied them. BOINC Manager still reports a nearly full HD.

I have looked at using the Synaptics package manager to remove some of my applications but if I try to remove the Abi wordprocessor the package manager wants to remove the "gtk desktop" or something like that. That makes me nervous so I stopped.

I am using Lubuntu 18.xx

Tom

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Poke around in your directories for where all the used space is taken up.

I think by default BOINC is set to not use more than like 100GB or 50% of the drive. But even that is way more than you need for seti. Thousands of WUs only takes up a few GB.

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Have you actually checked that there is "no" space on your hard disk?
With Linux this message can be caused when BOINC is trying to write to a write-protected directory.

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Bob Smith
Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society)
Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?

Have you actually checked that there is "no" space on your hard disk?
With Linux this message can be caused when BOINC is trying to write to a write-protected directory.

Unlike Windows, I can't "see" how much space there was left. I even tried using a HD cleaner for Linux as well as uninstalling some of the apps. Only thing I got was a screwed up OS :(

In another Thread Ian&SteveC. pointed to an error log being generated by pcie errors. And gave me a grub command line change to disable the logging of those errors.

Tom

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There are at least three commands that will give the answer:

 1   df command – Shows the amount of disk space used and available on Linux file systems.
 2   du command – Display the amount of disk space used by the specified files and for each subdirectory.
 3   btrfs fi df /device/ – Show disk space usage information for a btrfs based mount point/file system.

Unless of course they have not been included in Lubuntu.

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Bob Smith
Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society)
Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?

i cant imagine that you cant simply right click on the OS drive in the file manager and select "Properties" and it should just show you how much free space exists on the drive.

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i cant imagine that you cant simply right click on the OS drive in the file manager and select "Properties" and it should just show you how much free space exists on the drive.

I too can't imagine that Lubuntu is that dumbed down not to allow viewing of drive capacity. Either by the Properties or by use of the Disks application if Lubuntu didn't remove that stock Ubuntu application.

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In another Thread Ian&SteveC. pointed to an error log being generated by pcie errors. And gave me a grub command line change to disable the logging of those errors.

just to note, it doesn't just disable the logging. it changes the behavior to an extent that prevents the error from happening in the first place.

in case anyone else cares to read about it: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/327730/what-causes-this-pcieport-00000003-0-pcie-bus-error-aer-bad-tlp

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