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

[Ramnarayan.K]

On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 7:58 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.

saw what the others have already written like df -h and maybe dot files

Adding to that
1) do you have an indexing software that works automatically - if so
its cache sometimes become pretty big esp if external disks are added
(if you had set it up that way)
2) similarly some photo manager which caches thumbnails

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did you use Baobab (Applications - Accessories - disk Usage analyser)
it may not be command line but its provides super views of where space
is going.

ram