Disk full - Beginner - First time user

[Andrew Farris]

On Fri, 2009-07-31 at 21:06 -0700, David Fox wrote:
> 
> $ sudo aptitude autoclean
> 
> and see how much space that frees up. It might not free up a lot,
> since on a 2.3 gig root partition, you're not going to have a whole
> lot of packages installed.
> 

Theres also the shiny new 'Computer Janitor' tool which can do just that
with a simple visit to "System > Administration > Computer Janitor"  :D

Personally, I like the re-purposing of the 14GB partition idea.
Particularly if you're just trying it out to see if you like ubuntu/want
to use it full time (I, as i'm sure many others here, would
recommend :)).  this will give you plenty of leeway to install programs,
make documents, etc etc... though If you're really committing to a full
install for the long-haul, it may be a good investment to get another
hard drive to dedicate to ubuntu. Thats not an option for everybody, I
know, but just my 2 cents...

anyways, just to give you an idea on sizes on an existing install... my
computer has been a single, persistent install since Ubuntu 7.04
(upgraded now to 9.04), and I allocated 20GB to root, and the rest of
the hard drive (about 90GB) to my /home directory... and after all this
time, my root is sitting at 13.5GB (home is nearly full, and i've added
a 500GB HDD for other stuff).  I find that I must clean it out every
now-and-again, otherwise I also run out of space, but i'm also running a
web server, plus I've got several hundred programs installed, and a ton
of source code...so 14GB would probably be plenty for the time
being...(if you can use that partition)

Hope thats helpful!

-- 
Andrew
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