Help!!! Something is using most of my HDD space!!!

[Morgan Storey]

I'd suggest doing the below in /home/username
du -h --max-depth=1

This will tell you what folder is using what.

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Regards
Morgan Storey,A+, MCSE:Security.
IT Security Specialist.


On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 8:56 AM, Dave Hall <dave.hall at skwashd.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Can you please run "df -h" (without the quotes) and post the output to
> the list.
>
> Also please don't cross post, ask your question to one place, it wastes
> resources having multiple people answering the same question in multiple
> places.  Dropped yahoo group from CC
>
> Cheers
>
> Dave
>
> On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 08:48 +1100, Peter Williams wrote:
> >
> > 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/
> >
> >
> >
> > Fond Regards,
> > Peter Eric (aka 'pew') WILLIAMS
> >
> > from Hobart, Tasmania, Australia -- phone (03) 6236-9675
> >
> > My free website is: http://pewtas.googlepages.com
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > (please visit my free website and let me know what you think about it.)
> > Bob Hope  - "I have a wonderful make-up crew. They're the same people
> restoring the Statue of Liberty."ls -lah ~/
> >
> > results below
> > http://paste.ubuntu.com/116901/
> > df -h
> > results below
> > http://paste.ubuntu.com/116880/
> >
> > Fond Regards,
> > Peter Eric (aka 'pew') WILLIAMS
> > from Hobart, Tasmania, Australia -- phone (03) 6236-9675
> >
> > My free website is: http://pewtas.googlepages.com
> >
> > (please visit my free website and let me know what you think about
> > it.)
> > Bob Hope  - "I have a wonderful make-up crew. They're the same people
> > restoring the Statue of Liberty."
>
>
>
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