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Low disk space!

Typical. Just when I start to get on well with my Seventh Son project, I get a low disk space message on my Linux laptop. 

It's my own fault to be honest: I had a drive failure about a year ago and I stuck a spare 70G drive in there temporarily and forgot to replace it... 70G! what was I thinking? I suppose at the time, all I needed it for was to write SD-CARDs for my RPi's and SSH to them, but still... 70G!

So before I head off to eBay or Amazon, I need to have a look to see if there is anything better in my spares box and write a copy of Linux Mint to a DVD so I can rebuild.


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