[ubuntu-za] Filesysytem >Root

[Hannes Coetzee]

On 29/08/2011 12:14, Bill Cairns wrote:
> 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
>
Try this:

du -sh /* | sort -nr

Once you have the big folder you can run that command again but replace 
/* with /folder/*

Hannes