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jcats
August 21st, 2009, 01:37 PM
I recently checked gparted, and it says my Ubuntu partition is 95% full.
I have a 150 GB HD, dual booted w/ XP. 30 GB is for XP, the rest is for Ubuntu (8.10).

df -h shows:
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2 115G 104G 4.8G 96% /
tmpfs 759M 0 759M 0% /lib/init/rw
varrun 759M 324K 759M 1% /var/run
varlock 759M 0 759M 0% /var/lock
udev 759M 2.8M 756M 1% /dev
tmpfs 759M 356K 759M 1% /dev/shm
lrm 759M 2.2M 757M 1% /lib/modules/2.6.27-14-generic/volatile

I have run apt-get clean and emptied the trash.
I have run/checked Disc Usage Analyzer and Filelight. My / is 13GB and that is the biggest file.
I can't figure out what is filling up the HD

Any help or directions would be most appreciated.
Thanks;
jcats

bumanie
August 21st, 2009, 01:53 PM
Suggest you try
sudo apt-get autoclean

quanumphaze
August 21st, 2009, 01:57 PM
Run the Disk Usage Analyser program in Accesories to get a nice pie chart of what is eating all your space. (or use file size view in Konqueror if you use KDE)

mapes12
August 21st, 2009, 02:59 PM
I had a similar problem. This sorted me out: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=898573

jcats
August 21st, 2009, 04:23 PM
Thank you,mapes12, . That was the problem. Thanks again

In a slightly different note-wasn't there a way to post a thanks, if you felt somebody helped?
How do I mark this post as solved?

mapes12
August 21st, 2009, 07:33 PM
How do I mark this post as solved?There used to be an option in Thread Tools but it's gone. So to do this click on edit of your first post. Then Go Advanced then add [SOLVED] at the begining of your Title to the thread.

Yeh, I was gksu nautilus and deleting stuff not knowing that all I was doing was filling up roots trash bin.

Glad to be of assistance.

Land of the free...........:guitar: