how to improve home disk space

[Waleed Hamra]

On 04/15/2012 02:25 AM, Steve Morris wrote:
> 
> 
> On 08/04/12 21:56, Rajubhai Ramvani wrote:
>> dear sir,
>>       when i upgrade any programme the massage is desplaying (disk
>> space full) or (low disk space). so how can we improve disk space so
>> in future we not want this type massage. i know the we can do this by
>> home folder empty.but what is proper solution.anybody can help me.
>> rajuramvani.
>>
>>
> Hi,
>     If we assume you only have one partition for Kubuntu, you could
> check the /tmp and /home/%userid%/tmp directories to see how much space
> is used in those and delete the contents, which may or may not release a
> fair amount of disk space. Linux is like windows, by default it doesn't
> clear temp directories, although having said this some distributions
> allocate /temp to a ram disk to simulate emptying at shutdown. If your
> Kubuntu is doing this there should be an entry in /etc/fstab assigning
> /tmp to tempfs.
> 
> regards,
> Steve
> 

on the contrary, /etc/init/mounted-tmp.conf would tell you otherwise,
the /tmp directory is deleted on every boot, regardless of mount type :)

as for OP, it would be greatly helpful if you would type the following
command in a terminal, and tell us the output:

df -h

that is assuming you do read this list, which i'm starting to doubt :\


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Waleed K. Hamra
Manager of Hamra Information Systems

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