running out of disk space my / is full

[contactmayankjain]

Hi,

MY / is full how can I free it what are the extra things which are present in the default installation that is of no use and can help me to free my / space. Is there any way to increase my space.
df -H
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda10 3.0G 2.8G 68M 98% /
varrun 1.1G 119k 1.1G 1% /var/run
varlock 1.1G 0 1.1G 0% /var/lock
udev 1.1G 87k 1.1G 1% /dev
devshm 1.1G 41k 1.1G 1% /dev/shm
lrm 1.1G 47M 1.1G 5% /lib/modules/2.6.24-19-generic/volatile
/dev/sda9 9.0G 2.3G 6.3G 27% /home
/dev/sda8 996M 19M 928M 2% /tmp
gvfs-fuse-daemon 3.0G 2.8G 68M 98% /home/mayank/.gvfs
/dev/sda6 42G 19G 23G 46% /media/disk-3


Thanks
Mayank Jain

[iaculallad]

You could try:


sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get autoclean

and try deleting the .bak files in your /boot directory.


sudo rm /boot/*.bak

[contactmayankjain]

it helped but not much I have already tried this one. Thanks for your prompt reply :)

[contactmayankjain]

I am running out of space and now my / is 100% full and I am getting errors no disk space left ... I need some urgent help. :popcorn: