Email Trash problem

[Chris Mohler]

On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 2:32 PM, Mark Nichols <ubuntu at zanshin.net> wrote:
> On 05/22/2009 12:13 PM, Jonathan Pitt wrote:
>> I have a problem with attempting to empty my old emails and trash bin. I
>> have a Dell Mini 9 with Ubunto 8.04 on it. When I go to empty the trash
>> it gives me an error message that the drive (8 gig) is full. Obviously
>> it needs room to dump the trash (old emails) and free up space. What can
>> I do??
>
> Have you tried to delete files individually instead of all at once? You
> might also compress some files (even temporarily) to recover some disk
> space.

Also - I just did (in a terminal):
sudo apt-get clean

And it freed about 200 Megs of space.  That might give you enough room
to empty the trash...

Chris