root partition full

[CJ Tres]

On 12/20/2011 02:09 PM, Colin Law wrote:
> On 20 December 2011 17:32, CJ Tres<ctres at grics.net>  wrote:
>> I've followed the guide at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1122670
>>
>> Unmounting all but system partitions,
>> I've run apt-get-clean and -autoclean along with --autoremove, emptied trash
>> in root and home and after I removed old kernels and headers I've reduced /
>> by 4%.
>> There are no large or numerous log files, although I did delete the oldest
>> ones in each group.
>>
>> I did install doodle yesterday, which created a 20G directory in /var/lib.
>> As an experiment I moved that folder to another hd but the size of / wasn't
>> reduced, it's still 96% full! - 28G total 26G used 1.1G available. When I
>> tried to put it back there wasn't enough room.
>> Remaining directories are at or<  1%.
>>
>> Analyzing the file system with disk usage analyzer (gksudo boabab) still
>> reports root as 100% full (after doing the above steps) and the size as
>> 13.5G, home as 62.3% full - 8.4G, /usr as 27.5% at 3.7G and /var - 4,5% -
>> 617.1 MB.
>>
>>   df -Th | sort says:
>> /dev/sda1     ext3     28G   26G  1.1G  96% /
>> /dev/sda7     ext4     51G   13G   36G  27% /home
>> Filesystem    Type    Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>> none      devtmpfs    4.0G  704K  4.0G   1% /dev
>> none         tmpfs    4.0G     0  4.0G   0% /var/lock
>> none         tmpfs    4.0G  432K  4.0G   1% /var/run
>> none         tmpfs    4.0G  788K  4.0G   1% /dev/shm
>>
>> Is there something else I'm missing that I may be able to do to get the
>> percentage down or is my / partition just too small?
>
> Looking again at those they do not make sense.  df is showing / as 28G
> but you say baobab shows it as 13.5G.  Are you sure you are reading
> the baobab display correctly?  If you hover over the icons one will
> say Scan Filesystem.  Click that and it will scan the whole lot (go
> and have a cup of coffee) and show you where the space is used.
>
> Colin

I believe that's what I did.
Here's a screenshot.
http://imagepaste.nullnetwork.net/viewimage.php?id=2960