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@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: <a href="http://pewtas.googlepages.com">http://pewtas.googlepages.com</a>  (or) <a href="http://tinyurl.com/yuyejs">http://tinyurl.com/yuyejs</a> (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... <div class="gmail_quote">2009/2/12 Morgan Storey <<a href="mailto:me@morganstorey.com">me@morganstorey.com</a>> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> 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"><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 8:56 AM, Dave Hall <<a href="mailto:dave.hall@skwashd.com" target="_blank">dave.hall@skwashd.com</a>> wrote: </div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"> 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> 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></div></div>-- ubuntu-au mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com" target="_blank">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> </blockquote></div>