Running low on space

[alistair23]

Ubuntu says that i am running low on space on my partion. But i'm not. I have lots of external and internal hard drives mounted, and they appear in Media so on a 28GB drive i have used 298.5GB so is there a way i can say, there not counted i'm not running low on space.

[avtolle]

What matters here is the size of the partitions, not the total size of the HDD. If, e.g., a partition is 5GB, once that 5GB is full, it matters not that there may be 100 GB available elsewhere on the HDD.

Post the results of

df -h

so someone can take a look.

[sandeepy]

Could you please elaborate your problem ? As far as mounting is concerned, you would not have that included in your "used" space.

[cdtech]

How do you have your install partitioned? Type on a command line "df -H" to see the available space on all partitions. You may have your root partition set to small.....

[cdtech]

What matters here is the size of the partitions, not the total size of the HDD. If, e.g., a partition is 5GB, once that 5GB is full, it matters not that there may be 100 GB available elsewhere on the HDD.

Post the results of

df -h

so someone can take a look.

Sorry avtolle, we must have bumped heads on the reply.

[alistair23]

What matters here is the size of the partitions, not the total size of the HDD. If, e.g., a partition is 5GB, once that 5GB is full, it matters not that there may be 100 GB available elsewhere on the HDD.

Post the results of

df -h

so someone can take a look.

The results are

Filesystem            Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb5              26G   25G  484M  99% /
varrun               1014M  104K 1014M   1% /var/run
varlock              1014M     0 1014M   0% /var/lock
udev                 1014M   72K 1014M   1% /dev
devshm               1014M     0 1014M   0% /dev/shm
lrm                  1014M   39M  975M   4% /lib/modules/2.6.24-19-generic/volatile
gvfs-fuse-daemon       26G   25G  484M  99% /home/alistair/.gvfs
/dev/sdc1             233G  196G   38G  85% /media/BACKUP
/dev/scd0             7.8G  7.8G     0 100% /media/cdrom0
/dev/sda5             6.4G  1.9G  4.6G  30% /media/Share

My problem is that mounted partions count towards my total size and my used space.

[alistair23]

Sorry. I am an idiot. theres nothing wrong. sorry.

[avtolle]

No, your problem is that the partition mounted on /dev/sda5 (which is your root partition) is 99% full. You need to clear it out a bit to get some more room there.

Since you have no separate /home, the / partition holds the OS, the kernel, and all your data files.

[cdtech]

Sorry. I am an idiot. theres nothing wrong. sorry.

No idiot's here.

You do have problems but none that cant be fixed.

[alistair23]

How can i get more space?? What can i delete