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Flash · Posted: Sat 27 May 2006, 13:25 Post subject:

I found and deleted the first freememapplet folder from /usr/bin. I think I followed the instructions in your first post, but even after restarting X nothing happened. So I found the gear icon in /usr/bin/freememapplet and clicked it. Here's what I got:

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BarryK · Posted: Sat 27 May 2006, 21:49 Post subject:

calcfreespace.sh attached.

Download it to /usr/sbin, then:
#

Flash · Posted: Sat 27 May 2006, 23:02 Post subject:

That fixed it (Puppy2a8). One question: why doesn't it agree with "free"?

disciple · Posted: Sat 07 Oct 2006, 18:55 Post subject:

Good question!

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Pizzasgood · Posted: Sat 07 Oct 2006, 20:00 Post subject:

I think it doesn't show ram unless you're in ram-mode. The rest of the time I think it shows the remaining space in your savefile.

disciple · Posted: Sat 07 Oct 2006, 21:44 Post subject:

It seems to show the free space in the ramdisk - I am not really sure exactly what that means practically - is it possible to make it show the ram instead?

Also, when I bootup, it isn't swallowed correctly, but a couple of restarts of JWM corrects it. Does anybody have any ideas as to how to fix this?
NB. running Grafpup.

zygo · Joined: 08 Apr 2006 Posts: 208 Location: UK

I have added the 'entirely in RAM' case to calcfreespace.sh

disciple · Posted: Sat 03 Mar 2007, 18:55 Post subject:

It does not seem to work - still showing free space in ramdisk. This is my calcfreespace.sh

#!/bin/sh
#calc free space in which to create/save files.

SIZEFREE=0
PUPMODE=2
[ -f /etc/rc.d/PUPMODE ] && PUPMODE=`cat /etc/rc.d/PUPMODE`

case $PUPMODE in
3|7|13) #home partition/file mntd on pup_ro1, tmpfs on pup_rw
SIZEFREE=`df -k | grep ' /initrd/pup_ro1$' | tr -s ' ' | cut -f 4 -d ' '`
SIZETMP=`df -k | grep ' /initrd/pup_rw$' | tr -s ' ' | cut -f 4 -d ' '`
[ $SIZETMP -lt $SIZEFREE ] && SIZEFREE=$SIZETMP
;;
6|12) #home partition/file mntd on pup_rw (no tmpfs)
SIZEFREE=`df -k | grep ' /initrd/pup_rw$' | tr -s ' ' | cut -f 4 -d ' '`
;;
*)
SIZEFREE=`df -k | grep ' /$' | tr -s ' ' | cut -f 4 -d ' '`
;;
5) #entirely in ram
SIZEFREE=`free | grep 'Mem:' | tr -s ' ' | cut -f 5 -d ' '`
;;
esac

#exit $SIZEFREE
echo "$SIZEFREE"
###end###

BTW my swallow problem seems to be fixed by installing JWM 1.8 - I can't fathom why, as it worked with 1.7 in other versions of Puppy :)

HairyWill · Joined: 26 May 2006 Posts: 2949 Location: Southampton, UK

What puppy version are you using? I use 2.14. I don't have /etc/rc.d/PUPMODE, all the configuration seems to be in /etc/rc.d/PUPSTATE
try replacing

Karl Godt · Joined: 20 Jun 2010 Posts: 3860 Location: Kiel,Germany

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CatDude · Joined: 03 Jan 2007 Posts: 1431 Location: UK

Hello Karl

Karl Godt · Joined: 20 Jun 2010 Posts: 3860 Location: Kiel,Germany

TT Thousand Thanks CatDude !

I could not find anything at the dotpup page except a freememapplet.pup with source by MU which did not include this help page .

FWIW : dopupbasic and dotpuphander seem to work still on slacko-5.3.1 and got dl and installed by the new ppm after i enabled Puppy 4 Repository and checked all four package types .

Nevertheless the above htmlpage is really necessary i think .

The only part that is confusing today in the page would be