I have the same problem - the disk is full, and I really don't know how and why. I have two disks, but I generally use only the first one, because it is faster and bigger. Days ago, I was told that the disk is full. I cleaned it up(a lot of Gs), but without success - I was still told, that the disk is full. Afterwards, I don't know how I made this, but the disk had 11G of free space. Today I accessed the disk again, because I try very hard to make work the connection between my computer and the tv and I was thinking that maybe can make the connection from the other disk. When I went there, I was once again told, that the disk is full. I really would like to know what is going on since I removed all my media files and some crap already and now I have there only few things. Hm.... <div>2008/1/13, Michael <<a href="mailto:michaelg@seadreamer.net">michaelg@seadreamer.net</a>>:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Adam McGreggor wrote: <blockquote type="cite"><div> <pre>On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 10:18:59PM -0400, Derek Broughton wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre>Adam McGreggor wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre>On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 01:58:44PM +0100, Mario Vukelic wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre>On Fri, 2008-01-11 at 12:26 +0000, Adam McGreggor wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre>Any thoughts on *why*, despite having moved stuff off, the machine still doesn't think it's got any space? </pre> </blockquote> <pre>You might want to run the Disk Usage Analyzer from menu Applications > Accessories, to see where exactly the space is used up. </pre> </blockquote> <pre>No X, but I've "du -hs * | sort -n" 'd a bit. </pre> </blockquote> <pre>Well, du -s is provably not telling you what you're really using - as someone was demonstrating recently -s does _not_ summarize, it simply shows the space that the top level uses (and -c for totals doesn't work either). </pre> </blockquote> <pre>df is my preference over du. Has been for yonks. But sometimes, an estimate is useful. </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre>The issue is deleting stuff does *not* create disk-space. When it ought to. And the files *are* being deleted. </pre> </blockquote> <pre>Then I'd have to guess that when you move them you're still moving them onto the same filesystem. </pre> </blockquote> <pre>Unless something odd was going on with proc, and things, I'm unsure what/how. Still, the machine was in a right state, with god-knows how much un-used software, four/five upgrades, and a few broken annoyances, I did the unthinkable at reinstalled. I'm up and running again now, things are far quicker, and i can save stuff/work! Hurrah. Still not sure of what was going on, but I spent as long attempting to fix, as the install/rebuild, and gained 'better' results, too. A rebuild was going to happen sooner, rather than later, anyhow. This decided it. Cheers for the ideas: shame it didn't work, tho'. (now if only I could work out where, apart from ~/.mozilla/foo firefox saved stuff in...) </pre></div> </blockquote> This is probably too simple but I'm going to ask it anyway. When you deleted your files did you also empty the trash? Mike </div> -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users" target="_blank"> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div> -- Cheers, Angels WE never know how high we are Till we are called to rise; And then, if we are true to plan, Our statures touch the skies.(E.Dickinson)