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

[Paul Gear]

Peter Williams wrote:
> 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).

That's the proverbial sledge-hammer approach.  A better way would have
been to expand your file system to match the size of the disk.
Depending on your configuration, you may have been able to do this
on-line, or booted from the Ubuntu live CD - both methods should have
resulted in no data loss.

And as has frequently been requested previously, if you're running Mint
Linux, please use the appropriate mailing list for that distribution.

Paul
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