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Nonsense
May 4th, 2008, 11:49 AM
I've been using Ubuntu Hardy now for awhile. Every time I start up my system the free space of the HD has been dramatically decreased (often by 1 or 2 GB). I find this rather strange since I haven't downloaded or installed anything. Today I "lost" 2 GB just by logging in!

Help me Ubuntu community, you're my only hope.
Pumalite
May 4th, 2008, 12:33 PM
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df -h
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tvtech
May 4th, 2008, 12:35 PM
windows used to do that too me all the time.... never had linux do it though hope you find out what's up. !
GavinZac
May 4th, 2008, 12:38 PM
Probably some error that is causing your logs to grow huge.

Use the disk usage analyser to see what's bigger than it should be.
Nonsense
May 4th, 2008, 02:15 PM
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df -h
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/dev/sda2 44G 34G 8,0G 81% /
varrun 506M 108K 506M 1% /var/run
varlock 506M 0 506M 0% /var/lock
udev 506M 68K 506M 1% /dev
devshm 506M 12K 506M 1% /dev/shm
lrm 506M 36M 471M 7% /lib/modules/2.6.24-16-generic/volatile
Nonsense
May 4th, 2008, 02:21 PM
Probably some error that is causing your logs to grow huge.

Use the disk usage analyser to see what's bigger than it should be.

I checked it and it shows that my var/backup is 25BG (!).
Bug?
Could it be fixed?
Pumalite
May 4th, 2008, 02:24 PM
Unless you set some backup mechanism intentionally; I'd erase it. Then start looking for the culprit. Beryl use to be one.
Nonsense
May 4th, 2008, 02:58 PM
Unless you set some backup mechanism intentionally; I'd erase it. Then start looking for the culprit. Beryl use to be one.

Duh.
I had previously installed Simple Backup and forgot all about it. It was set to backup everything daily. :oops:

Thanks anyway
Joeb454
May 4th, 2008, 02:59 PM
:lolflag: Sounds like something I would do. Search indexer's and hibernation files take up a lot of space too while we're on the subject :)
Pumalite
May 4th, 2008, 03:03 PM
Duh.
I had previously installed Simple Backup and forgot all about it. It was set to backup everything daily. :oops:

Thanks anyway

You are welcome. Good luck.
Nonsense
May 4th, 2008, 03:13 PM
:lolflag: Sounds like something I would do. Search indexer's and hibernation files take up a lot of space too while we're on the subject :)

Thanks. I'll look into that. Right now I just feel blessed that I have 25GB more to fill with nonsense. Manna from heaven!