Root partition full...how should I free up space?

[Nickolai Toupikov]

Hi,
1. Do you have any other partitions? if yes, you may consider to boot on 
a livecd and use gparted to extend the root partition. (Remember to back 
up your stuff)
2. I recommend you have a look at filelight - it is very useful to find 
out WHAT uses all the disk space.
hope it helps
Nickolai




Faizan Kazi wrote:
> Hi guys!
> I'm using Ubuntu 9.04 and Ive completely run out of space on my root 
> partition. Ive tried uninstalled programs, cleaning the apt cache and 
> autoremoving stuff, but i only freed 500 M and its giving my system 
> problems... Vuze keeps reporting the harddisk is full... programs seem 
> to be running slow...
> How do i free up space? Shall I expand the partition? (using ext 4). 
> And where's all my free space gone...??
>
> using "sudo du -h /var/" i found out the following, which may not be 
> totally accurate....
>
> 358M    /var
> 6.0M    /bin/
> 19M    /etc/
> 1.2G    /home/
> 121M    /lib/
> 11M    /root/
> 49M    /opt/
> 604K    /tmp/
> 5.0G    /usr/
> 342M    /var/
>
> proc is over 890 MB... I had to use "gksu nautilus" to find the 
> approximate size... not all the folders/files could be accessed. which 
> makes sense considering theyre in use by the system.
>
> one thing to note is when using "gksu nautilus" to find the size of 
> /var it was reported as ~480 MB, not the 342 that "sudo du -h /var/" 
> reported.
>
> Anyways... Where is my free space? the contents of the folders 
> mentioned above do not add up to 15 Gigs!!
> I see them adding up to 7 Gigs +- 3 or 4 gigs, but basically almost 7 
> Gigs seems to have vanished!! :s
>
> I'd really appreciate your help on this guys... I like linux cuz its 
> lean and mean... but this is getting bloated.. :(
>
> Regards,
> Faizan
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