2009/2/12 Peter Williams <pew...@gmail.com>: > > Hello All, > > My problem is with this pc (this desktop) running Ubuntu with Gnome DE... > and the Home space is around 37 GB. The main partition (see line 9 > http://paste.ubuntu.com/117016/) > > I don't know what is taking up most of my space... I don't think it's the > Ubuntu installation itself. But something is hogging most of the HDD and > leaving me with only 3.2GB free hard disc space. > > Note that the HDDs in this pc is one terabyte (as 2 x 500 GB HDD). I will > provide more technical details as requested.... as long as you explain how > I'm to obtain this info. > > I should NOT be running out of HDD space!!! Note also that I rate myself as > only a Ubuntu Beginner!!! The links below are the result of chats in > #beginners-help chat forum ... I tried to ask in #ubuntu chat forum but it > was so very busy that I was effectively ignored ;-( > > sudo fdisk -l > results below > http://paste.ubuntu.com/117016/ > > > ls -lah ~/ > results below > http://paste.ubuntu.com/116901/ > > df -h > results below > http://paste.ubuntu.com/116880/
The du command should help here. It will tell you which files are taking up space on the disk. Try 'man du' for information on the command, or for the lazy: 'du -h -x --max-depth=1' should tell you what top level directories are taking up space (as long as you run it from /) without looking through other mounted drives. It'll take a while to complete, and you'll probably have to run it as root (ie: sudo du) or it wont be able to look at all files on the disk. You may want to hunt around from there to find which directories have blown out. If you're not sure from there send back the output of that command. Regards, Ross -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
