[ubuntu-za] Filesysytem >Root

[Quintin van Rooyen]

On 29 August 2011 12:14, Bill Cairns <cairnsww at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 7:47 AM, Raoul Snyman
> <raoul.snyman at saturnlaboratories.co.za> wrote:
> > On Mon, 29 Aug 2011 07:34:37 +0200, Bill Cairns wrote:
> >> Would appreciate your help.
> >
> > Please provide us with more details, like what your partition table looks
> > like. We can't help you much with very little information.
>
> I am not sure how to do that.
> >
> > Some things you can do:
> >
> > 1. Check how much space you are using:
> >   - Open Terminal
> >   - Type in "df -Th" (without the quotes) and press enter
> >   This should show you the different file systems, and how much they are
> > used.
>
> bill at Lucy:~$ df -Th
> Filesystem    Type    Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda1     ext4    9.2G  8.1G  624M  94% /
> none      devtmpfs    990M  328K  990M   1% /dev
> none         tmpfs    994M  140K  994M   1% /dev/shm
> none         tmpfs    994M  204K  994M   1% /var/run
> none         tmpfs    994M     0  994M   0% /var/lock
> none         tmpfs    994M     0  994M   0% /lib/init/rw
> /dev/sda6     ext4    138G   50G   81G  38% /home
> /dev/sdb1     ext4    459G  200G  236G  46% /media/Thomas
> bill at Lucy:~$
>
>
Try this:

cd /

sudo du -sh *

This should spit out the disk usage of each directory in /

If you want to get fancy you can do:

du -sh | grep G

This will spit out the lines that has a G in it, and this output will
include the dirs that use up gigs of space.

You can then cd into these dirs to and do the same in order to find the
culprit.

In order to look for hidden files you can do:

du -sh .* and this will list all files/directories with the "dot" (.) in
front that are hidden.

Nasty I know, but it works for me :)


> > 2. I think Ubuntu has this "trash" folder, like Windows' recycle bin.
> Make
> > sure you've emptied the trash.
>
> That gave me 48 megs
> > 3. Clear out old cached packages with "sudo apt-get clean"
> >
> >
>
> I did that and then df again:
>
> bill at Lucy:~$ sudo apt-get clean
> [sudo] password for bill:
> bill at Lucy:~$ df -Th
> Filesystem    Type    Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda1     ext4    9.2G  7.9G  844M  91% /
> none      devtmpfs    990M  396K  990M   1% /dev
> none         tmpfs    994M  140K  994M   1% /dev/shm
> none         tmpfs    994M  204K  994M   1% /var/run
> none         tmpfs    994M     0  994M   0% /var/lock
> none         tmpfs    994M     0  994M   0% /lib/init/rw
> /dev/sda6     ext4    138G   50G   82G  38% /home
> /dev/sdb1     ext4    459G  200G  236G  46% /media/Thomas
> bill at Lucy:~$
>
>
> Thanks - winning slowly!
>
>  Bill
>
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