[ubuntu-in] Ubuntu - Where is the space going

[Aanjhan R]

On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 4:28 PM, Narendra Diwate
<narendra.diwate at gmail.com> wrote:
> So if the system is back to what it was before being reformatted, where was
> all the extra space of almost 3.5 GB being used or utilised.

Sometimes the dot files and directories can occupy space.

E.g. if you have thunderbird - all your mails go into the
.mozilla-thunderbird directory. if you have shotwell or Virtualbox or
any such, the virtual machines by default are put in the .virtualbox
directory.

Even firefox's extensions go in here. I am not sure how you checked
your ~/ disk usage. Did you do a df -h ?

Regards,
Aanjhan