[SOLVED] Not enough free disk space

[GGreen]

I am having problems with my disk space. I can't complete updates. The error message says "The update needs a total of 226M of free disk space on '/'. Please free an additional 199M of disk space on '/'. Empty your trash and remove temporary packages of former installations using 'sudo apt-get clean'." I tried this but didn't work.

I am also unable to download new messages with Thunderbird. The error message says "There is not enough disk space to download new messages. Try deleting old mail, emptying the trash folder, and compacting your mail folders, and then try again." I tried this and didn't work.

Also I have noticed Thunderbird is duplicating messages and saying there is new mail. I will have no new messages and then I will have 1200 new messages. I don't know if that is related.

I have Ubuntu and Vista installed. I had an issue installing Ubuntu initially and reinstalled. Now it shows 2 instances of Ubuntu. I have used Gparted to change partition size but am unsure if I did it correctly. I had this problem once before and installed Logical Volume Management and that helped then but now I am stuck.
I would like to delete the unusable Ubuntu and allocate as much partition space to Ubuntu without deleting Vista. I do not like Vista but there are some things that won't work with Ubuntu.

Any help would be greatly appreciated

[mikewhatever]

Can you post the output of df -h from Applications->Accessories->Terminal.
Looking at the picture you posted, there is only one linux partition, sda5, and it is nearly empty.

[XCan]

That's peculiar, what is the output of

 df -h

Edit: Mike beat me.

[Intrepid Ibex]

It seems that your NTFS partition is mounted as /boot and /host, but you got no partition mounted as /, which is kinda weird. Was that picture taken with live cd?

Anyways you could post the content of /etc/fstab =).

Also you got way too big swap partition (twice your RAM is usually enough) and there's almost 20gb of empty space between /dev/sda2 and /dev/sda3.

Yeah and ext4 is newer and better than ext3 =), cheers.

[tsger]

if you copy the contents of /etc/fstab and post them, that will be helpful.

[louieb]

looks like your booting to a WUBI (inside widows) install of Ubuntu. also looks like you have a partition set aside for Ubuntu on the hard drive - its got plenty of disk space.

Just to be sure before giving a suggestion - Please download the Boot Info Script - SourceForge.net

Running it wiil create a file RESULTS.TXT Put it in your next post - please use code tags - its long.
To run

sudo bash ~/Desktop/boot_info_script*.sh

[GGreen]

Thank you all for the quick responses. The original screenshot was from gParted. I am attaching results of df -h. I tried using the terminal for /etc/fstab and sudo bash ~/Desktop/boot_info_script*.sh but didn't get any usable results. I've attached it also.

Any instructions on how to clean up my disk partitions would be appreciated. I've tried researching on this and other sites and did what you saw on the screenshot with gParted. I need to make use of the unallocated space and delete the partition(s) for the Ubuntu install that I messed up on the 1st install.

[GGreen]

If anyone knows how to resolve the issue with the e-mail duplicating in Thunderbird, I would appreciate the reply. I deleted some mail and emptied trash and deleted some downloads. I had zero new messages, then it started downloading 3559 new messages. They were messages that I deleted and also duplicates of messages that were already downloaded that it had already duplicated 4 or 5 times.

[louieb]

Not much help with email but 1st are you connected to an IMAP or POP server. If POP is the option set to delete messages on the server after download?

Check out - How to recover lost disk space
and Check your trash

Just a short term fix. Really should get a regular Ubuntu install working. You already have the dangerous part done (you have a partition ready to install).

About the boot info script. Did you download it?
Have you changed the default download location in Firefox edit>preferences? If so need to change the ~/Desktop part of the command to wherever you are downloading to.

[GGreen]

LouieB,

Thanks for straightening me out on boot info script. I've attached with this message. Tell me what do I do to get a regular Ubuntu install? I thought I did already. My computer will boot to Ubuntu or Vista. BREAK IT DOWN BARNEY STYLE!!! Slow motion will work also!