root partition growing

[Reinhold Rumberger]

On Thursday 04 March 2010, Max Freitag wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Am Donnerstag, 4. März 2010 09:49:47 schrieb Alvin:
> > Believe the output of df. You have 75GB free. That's plenty for
> > a root partition. (What are you storing there? 66G in use?)
> 
> thats the problem, i dont now where the 66G are?
> 
> sudo du --max-depth=1 -x -h /

With --max-depth=1, that isn't going to tell you a lot...

> says 5G on root, i think thats right, but df says 66G (of 148G) in
> use.
> 
> I let do a filesystemcheck on boot today, its all the same.

Try running "sudo apt-get autoclean". You may also want to look into 
the /var directory, specifically everything that is in /var/crash and 
/var/cache. If that still doesn't do the trick, try looking through 
/tmp.

  --Reinhold