Hi guys! I'm using Ubuntu 9.04 and Ive completely run out of space on my root partition. Ive tried uninstalled programs, cleaning the apt cache and autoremoving stuff, but i only freed 500 M and its giving my system problems... Vuze keeps reporting the harddisk is full... programs seem to be running slow... How do i free up space? Shall I expand the partition? (using ext 4). And where's all my free space gone...?? using "sudo du -h /var/" i found out the following, which may not be totally accurate.... 358M /var 6.0M /bin/ 19M /etc/ 1.2G /home/ 121M /lib/ 11M /root/ 49M /opt/ 604K /tmp/ 5.0G /usr/ 342M /var/ proc is over 890 MB... I had to use "gksu nautilus" to find the approximate size... not all the folders/files could be accessed. which makes sense considering theyre in use by the system. one thing to note is when using "gksu nautilus" to find the size of /var it was reported as ~480 MB, not the 342 that "sudo du -h /var/" reported. Anyways... Where is my free space? the contents of the folders mentioned above do not add up to 15 Gigs!! I see them adding up to 7 Gigs +- 3 or 4 gigs, but basically almost 7 Gigs seems to have vanished!! :s I'd really appreciate your help on this guys... I like linux cuz its lean and mean... but this is getting bloated.. :( Regards, Faizan