My disk space is plumiting

[gardengxc]

Without installing or downloading anything the free space on my file system is dropping by about 100 megs/minute. Not long ago I freed up 7GB after free space ran out last night and already its back down to 2.7GB.

[haqking]

check your logs and running processes

[gardengxc]

Odd thing I walked away from my computer and the free space is now reading 7.9gb.

[sj1410]

anyways you can use the below command to check disk usage of current folder

du -sh

[megabuffen]

If you have a GUI, the "Disk Usage Analyzer" tool is really good for hunting down large files or folders. It's included by default and can be found in the "Accessories" sub-menu. On older versions of Ubuntu it is in the "System" menu.

[gardengxc]

I decided to do a fresh install as I was looking at 12.04 beta and was having other problems.