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poldie
January 13th, 2010, 12:38 AM
I've just performed a clean install of Ubuntu 9.10 onto my 74 hard drive. I toyed with a vm of XP but have decided to wipe than and do another vm. I've emptied my deleted items, but I still have a load of space missing. I chose ext4.

I've googled this sort of thing before and seen that people ask you to df - h, so I've done that, and I can see this:

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 66G 26G 37G 41% /
udev 2.0G 268K 2.0G 1% /dev
none 2.0G 116K 2.0G 1% /dev/shm
none 2.0G 564K 2.0G 1% /var/run
none 2.0G 0 2.0G 0% /var/lock
none 2.0G 0 2.0G 0% /lib/init/rw
none 66G 26G 37G 41% /var/lib/ureadahead/debugfs
/dev/sdb1 932G 883G 50G 95% /media/NTFS 1TB


that last entry is obviously my 1tb 2nd drive. But I don't understand the rest of it. Debugfs? 26gb used? Where?

When I run the disk usage analyser it says 25gb used, 40.3 available.

quixote
January 14th, 2010, 02:08 AM
Are you using VirtualBox? Sometimes it can be stupid about deleted vm's. Check how much space is being taken up by old machines under /home/your-user-name/.VirtualBox/HardDisks. (That's a hidden directory, so either select View > Show hidden files, or hit Ctrl-h.) Look around in all vbox's directories, just in case it's hogging space in some other file(s).

Be nice if it was this easy. :D

drs305
January 14th, 2010, 02:17 AM
Here's a link to a disk space troubleshooting guide I wrote a while back. It goes through various ways to locate and recover 'lost' free space.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1122670

Usually it is undeleted trash or backups made to the wrong partition, sometimes large log files. They are covered and more.

Keith1212
March 24th, 2010, 09:29 AM
Here's a link to a disk space troubleshooting guide I wrote a while back. It goes through various ways to locate and recover 'lost' free space.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1122670

Usually it is undeleted trash or backups made to the wrong partition, sometimes large log files. They are covered and more.
Thanks for this. I thought i was going crazy losing diskspace so fast and not knowing where it is haha.