[ubuntu-za] Filesysytem >Root

[Bill Cairns]

On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 7:47 AM, Raoul Snyman
<raoul.snyman at saturnlaboratories.co.za> wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Aug 2011 07:34:37 +0200, Bill Cairns wrote:
>> Would appreciate your help.
>
> Please provide us with more details, like what your partition table looks
> like. We can't help you much with very little information.

I am not sure how to do that.
>
> Some things you can do:
>
> 1. Check how much space you are using:
>   - Open Terminal
>   - Type in "df -Th" (without the quotes) and press enter
>   This should show you the different file systems, and how much they are
> used.

bill at Lucy:~$ df -Th
Filesystem    Type    Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1     ext4    9.2G  8.1G  624M  94% /
none      devtmpfs    990M  328K  990M   1% /dev
none         tmpfs    994M  140K  994M   1% /dev/shm
none         tmpfs    994M  204K  994M   1% /var/run
none         tmpfs    994M     0  994M   0% /var/lock
none         tmpfs    994M     0  994M   0% /lib/init/rw
/dev/sda6     ext4    138G   50G   81G  38% /home
/dev/sdb1     ext4    459G  200G  236G  46% /media/Thomas
bill at Lucy:~$

> 2. I think Ubuntu has this "trash" folder, like Windows' recycle bin. Make
> sure you've emptied the trash.

That gave me 48 megs
> 3. Clear out old cached packages with "sudo apt-get clean"
>
>

I did that and then df again:

bill at Lucy:~$ sudo apt-get clean
[sudo] password for bill:
bill at Lucy:~$ df -Th
Filesystem    Type    Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1     ext4    9.2G  7.9G  844M  91% /
none      devtmpfs    990M  396K  990M   1% /dev
none         tmpfs    994M  140K  994M   1% /dev/shm
none         tmpfs    994M  204K  994M   1% /var/run
none         tmpfs    994M     0  994M   0% /var/lock
none         tmpfs    994M     0  994M   0% /lib/init/rw
/dev/sda6     ext4    138G   50G   82G  38% /home
/dev/sdb1     ext4    459G  200G  236G  46% /media/Thomas
bill at Lucy:~$


Thanks - winning slowly!

  Bill