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

[Peter Williams]

Dear Ubuntu Folk,

Problem SOLVED. I did a total re-install of my OS... wiping out the old OS.

I'm now using Mint Ubuntu (Elyssa)... and it is the only OS on this pc. It
was quite straight-forward to install (over-writing the old system).

Best Regards,
PEW   ;-)))


Fond Regards,
Peter Eric (aka 'pew') WILLIAMS
from Hobart, Tasmania, Australia -- phone (03) 6236-9675

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2009/2/12 David Gillies <daveg at dorja.com>

> 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.
>
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