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gwu777
August 2nd, 2008, 06:56 AM
Hi there,

When it came out, I have installed Hardy on a 5.11Gb extended partition, my home folder is on another partition. There is 4.53Gb for the file system and 588Mb for the swap.

The file system partition is totally full. I am a bit surprised as I understood that over 4Gb should be plenty to run ubuntu...

There is no documents on that partition and I haven't installed major software that were not on the initial distribution...

How can I work out what is taking me so much space and how to clean it up... I am not used to go in the file system folder on linux...

Thank you for your help

iaculallad
August 2nd, 2008, 07:04 AM
Hi there,

When it came out, I have installed Hardy on a 5.11Gb extended partition, my home folder is on another partition. There is 4.53Gb for the file system and 588Mb for the swap.

The file system partition is totally full. I am a bit surprised as I understood that over 4Gb should be plenty to run ubuntu...

There is no documents on that partition and I haven't installed major software that were not on the initial distribution...

How can I work out what is taking me so much space and how to clean it up... I am not used to go in the file system folder on linux...

Thank you for your help

Drop to your terminal and try cleaning your cache file:



sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get autoclean