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 My free website is: <a href="http://pewtas.googlepages.com">http://pewtas.googlepages.com</a> (please visit my free website and let me know what you think about it.) Doug Larson  - "Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks." <div class="gmail_quote">2009/2/12 David Gillies <<a href="mailto:daveg@dorja.com">daveg@dorja.com</a>> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="Ih2E3d">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@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. > </div>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. <div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"> -- 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> </div></div></blockquote></div>