root partition full

[CJ Tres]

On 12/20/2011 04:28 PM, Marius Gedminas wrote:

>
> Did you run baobab as root (with gksudo)?  Perhaps it skipped some
> inaccessible directories in, say, /var, and thus couldn't count their
> sizes properly?

Missed this earlier.
Yes I started it with gksudo baobab


> I'm not a fan of baobab.  I like du:
>
>    sudo du -xhs /
>
> does this print a number close to those 26G that df claims?
>
> If not, most likely there are deleted files kept open that occupy space.
> Check with
>
>    sudo lsof / | grep '(deleted)'

Just ran this again (as above) and now it's showing a number of files in 
/tmp, /usr/share/applications,/var/tmp, var/lib doodle (over 20G!) and 
/usr/lib tracker and each line ends with (deleted) - in red.
So these files are still present on /?
I don't see them either in vim or nautilus (as root).