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Thanks amjjawad. I guess I will wait for the new installation until after the new version is released in April and keep these pointers in mind while creating a new partition table.

And, agree...

Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders, total 312581808 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes /...

Also, please note that I have reduced the swapiness to 10 as suggested in some of the forums.

Thanks mörgæs and amjjawad. Like you guys suggested, I have done a full installation of Lubuntu 13.10 and increased the root partition. I still have the same problem and chromium still takes a lot of...

Thanks mörgæs. Will do a fresh installation of 13.10. Is it possible to increase disk space for the time being (maybe use some of the 60gigs from another module which is just sitting idle)?

Filesystem 1M-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 9387 7133 1778 81% /
udev 491 1 491 1% /dev
tmpfs 200 1 200...

Other information I forgot to mention:

UBUNTU:
Release 12.04 (precise) 32-bit
Kernel Linux 3.2.0-59-generic-pae
GNOME 3.4.2

System Status:
Available disk space: 1.9 GB (Although I have...

I am new to the Linux platform and have been experimenting with KUBUNTU and LUBUNTU on a fairly old HP laptop (Intel 1.73 Ghz dual core processor, 1 GB RAM, 160 GB hard disc, GeForce 7400 nvidia...