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

[Brian McKee]

On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 2:35 AM, Faizan Kazi <faizan.s.kazi at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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/

du -h /var found /home etc?  I don't think that's right.

> proc is over 890 MB...

proc isn't real - ignore that.

> 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

What does df -h say?

Brian
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