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

[David Gillies]

David Gillies wrote:
> 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.
>>     
>
> <snip!>
>   
>> 32G    .
>>     
> So looking at your computer, I see that you've allocated a total of 43G 
> for your Ubuntu install:
>
> root at user-desktop:/home/user# df -h
> Filesystem            Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda1              43G   38G  3.7G  92% /
>
> And your home directory is using 32Gb, which leaves another 6Gb outside 
> of your directory, which is probably the Ubuntu install itself and other 
> miscellania. Your problem seems to be more that you haven't 
> allocated/partitioned any of the rest of your drives.
>   
I had a look at your fdisk -l output (sorry, I didn't before) and I saw 
that /dev/sda1 is almost all of the disk, definitely a lot more than the 
43G that df is reporting. That's quite bizarre.