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

[Dave Hall]

On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 09:24 +1100, Morgan Storey wrote:
> I'd suggest doing the below in /home/username
> du -h --max-depth=1
> 
> This will tell you what folder is using what.

I was initially more interested in what his overall usage was, then I
would suggest he uses filelight which is just a fancy GUI frontend for
du

> 
> --
> 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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