Help!!! Something is using most of my HDD space!!!
Stewart Johnston
scj at stooj.co.uk
Thu Feb 12 04:53:45 GMT 2009
Just a quick look:
DVD_iso_images is taking up 11Gb worth of space.
Music is taking up 6Gb worth
Pascal, 2Gb
Videos, 8Gb
Archives, 2Gb
There's 29Gb of room taken up right there
Peter Williams wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Note my user name is 'user'. The home folder totals 32GB so it's NOT
> the problem. Something else is taking all of the space.
>
> Below are the results of 'du -h -x --max-depth=1' command in the home
> folder.
>
> root at user-desktop:/home/user# du -h -x --max-depth=1
> 34M ./tmp
> 4.3M ./Documents
> 556K ./.compiz
> 16K ./.adobe
> 604K ./.macromedia
> 884K ./.nautilus
> 96K ./.transmission
> 4.0K ./.icons
> 28K ./GNUstep
> 876K ./.buoh
> 20K ./.eric4
> 600K ./.mcop
> 123M ./.mozilla
> 32K ./.sane
> 8.0K ./.mplayer
> 1.8M ./.purple
> 108K ./.scribus
> 16K ./.pulse
> 171M ./cvsroot
> 20M ./New2HelpMultiTabbed
> 31M ./PDF
> 464K ./.clamtk
> 64K ./.winefish
> 3.7M ./xlogo
> 12K ./.xarchive
> 1.6M ./.gconf
> 12K ./.themes
> 7.0M ./.cache
> 6.1G ./Music
> 40K ./.dvdcss
> 20K ./.AbiSuite
> 12K ./.ripoff
> 71M ./Delphi.7.Second.Edition.v7.2
> 44K ./.xine
> 12K ./.openinvaders
> 12K ./MP3_Shoutcast_Playlists
> 12K ./.pdfedit
> 51M ./Lazarus_1.4_alpha
> 38M ./commodore
> 36M ./vice-1.22
> 102M ./.thumbnails
> 488K ./.spumux
> 316K ./.config
> 20M ./.kde.old
> 32K ./csv_comma_seperated_values
> 12K ./.update-manager-core
> 1.9M ./.local
> 213M ./Photos
> 1.8G ./pascal
> 4.0K ./.egoboo
> 3.7M ./.openoffice.org2
> 113M ./OpenOffice stuff
> 4.0K ./.gnome2_private
> 4.2M ./.kompozer
> 12M ./font_zip_files
> 8.0K ./.kpackage
> 700M ./Public
> 8.0K ./.deb-gview
> du: cannot access `./.gvfs': Permission denied
> 20K ./FrostWire
> 4.8M ./.gnome2
> 260K ./Sitemap_generator
> 712K ./Torrents
> 208M ./Pictures
> 3.8M ./.mozilla-thunderbird
> 220K ./.frostwire4.17
> 2.5M ./txt_files
> 464K ./.gimp-2.4
> 72M ./websites
> 25M ./.streamtuner
> 11G ./DVD_iso_images
> 92K ./.gconfd
> 364K ./.vlc
> 48K ./.inkscape
> 649M ./.wine
> 131M ./.fr-SIsVP8
> 48K ./.screem
> 16K ./.qt
> 9.4M ./.fonts
> 12K ./.dbus
> 224K ./.metacity
> 132K ./.tomboy
> 98M ./Desktop
> 164K ./.bluefish
> 8.1G ./Videos
> 4.0K ./Templates
> 4.0K ./.wapi
> 1.8G ./Archives
> 8.0K ./.update-notifier
> 127M ./Misc stuff
> 1.5M ./.kde4
> 132K ./.fontconfig
> 380K ./.evolution
> 3.4M ./html
> 395M ./OLD HDD
> 11M ./.kde
> 81M ./starlogo-linux-build-i386-nosound.
> 3.5M ./.klamav
> 1.3M ./liogo
> 132K ./kdesvn_repository
> 4.0K ./.ssh
> 576K ./.gstreamer-0.10
> 8.0K ./.cups
> 4.0K ./.bogofilter
> 12K ./.alsaplayer
> 40K ./.subversion
> 218M ./Lazarus_source_code
> 12K ./Logo
> 208K ./.lazarus
> 12K ./.gnupg
> 7.3M ./.java
> 32G .
>
> Fond Regards,
> Peter Eric (aka 'pew') WILLIAMS
> from Hobart, Tasmania, Australia -- phone (03) 6236-9675
>
> My free website is: http://pewtas.googlepages.com (or)
> http://tinyurl.com/yuyejs
>
> (please visit my free website and let me know what you think about it.)
> Marlene Dietrich - "Most women set out to try to change a man, and
> when they have changed him they do not like h...
>
> 2009/2/12 Morgan Storey <me at morganstorey.com <mailto:me at morganstorey.com>>
>
> I'd suggest doing the below in /home/username
> du -h --max-depth=1
>
> This will tell you what folder is using what.
>
> --
> 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
> <mailto: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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