HDD Inexplicably Full

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On 03/24/2010 12:22 PM, James Tappin wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 21:13:34 +0200
> Rafiq Hajat <ipi.malawi at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> RH> I know that I had at least 30gb free but this has appeared out of
> RH> the blue to my complete perplexity.
> RH> I'm using Karmic 9.10 on a Compaq 6829s laptop and, aside from a few
> RH> ongoing hassles with grub2, have generally been quite happy with it.
> RH> I don't know what exactly info you would need to get to the bottom
> RH> of this quandary and will humbly await your guided instructions to
> RH> acquire the relevant data to assist diagnosis.
> RH> I am anxiously standing by awaiting your helping hands.
> 
> The most obvious first step is to find out where the excess stuff is. 
> df -h in the top level directory of the full partition will list the
> amount of space used in each directory and that should show you where
> the problem lies -- then an ls -l on the suspect directory(ies) should
> show what's in them and how big it is (for home directories ls -la may
> be needed if there are last hidden files).
> 

And an added question for Rafiq: do you by chance use a backup
application? In particular the Simple Backup app?