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. <div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 8:56 AM, Dave Hall <<a href="mailto:dave.hall@skwashd.com">dave.hall@skwashd.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> 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 <div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"> 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 <a href="http://paste.ubuntu.com/117016/" target="_blank">http://paste.ubuntu.com/117016/</a>) > > 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 > <a href="http://paste.ubuntu.com/117016/" target="_blank">http://paste.ubuntu.com/117016/</a> > > > ls -lah ~/ > results below > <a href="http://paste.ubuntu.com/116901/" target="_blank">http://paste.ubuntu.com/116901/</a> > > df -h > results below > <a href="http://paste.ubuntu.com/116880/" target="_blank">http://paste.ubuntu.com/116880/</a> > > > > Fond Regards, > Peter Eric (aka 'pew') WILLIAMS > > from Hobart, Tasmania, Australia -- phone (03) 6236-9675 > > My free website is: <a href="http://pewtas.googlepages.com" target="_blank">http://pewtas.googlepages.com</a> > > > > > (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 > <a href="http://paste.ubuntu.com/116901/" target="_blank">http://paste.ubuntu.com/116901/</a> > df -h > results below > <a href="http://paste.ubuntu.com/116880/" target="_blank">http://paste.ubuntu.com/116880/</a> > > Fond Regards, > Peter Eric (aka 'pew') WILLIAMS > from Hobart, Tasmania, Australia -- phone (03) 6236-9675 > > My free website is: <a href="http://pewtas.googlepages.com" target="_blank">http://pewtas.googlepages.com</a> > > (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." </div></div>-- ubuntu-au mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au</a> </blockquote></div>