Zero Bytes free on my hard drive

Amedee Van Gasse (ub) amedee-ubuntu at amedee.be
Fri Mar 5 15:26:46 UTC 2010


On Fri, March 5, 2010 14:35, Keith Clark wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 16:01 -0800, Johnneylee Rollins wrote:
>> Have you attempted to see if your home partition is mounted correctly?
>>
>
> Yes, mounted and accessable.  The only way I could solve this was to log
> in in recovery mode and just start deleting away large multimedia files.
> I must have deleted about 100 GB before the drive suddenly recognized
> free space.
>
> I have no idea why this is the case, but I have my machine back to being
> usable.

Now that you have some space you should install ncdu - ncurses disk usage
viewer. It shows you where all the space has gone and enables you to
navigate trough the directories. You can even delete files/dirs with it.

Install it NOW so that it is accessible the next time you run out of space.





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