Where did all my space go?!

[magomago]

I've been playing around with Ubuntu 6.06 as my desktop lately (yes yes yes I know it isn't the final version but its extremely stable and I haven't had any problems at all since Flight 5) and I noticed that my space used is a LOT. Now aside from Cedega +Warcraft 3 and gaim2.0 I haven't installed anything extra...even if those upgrades take up space it shouldn't be 25 out of my allotted 30 gigs. I DO have 10 gigs of home videos on the drive...but that is it. And considering I used Breezy for a long time, and Hoary before that I have trouble beleiveing that my operating system takes 15 gigabytes.

However I noticed there is ONE thing...when I delete a file by selecticing it and pressing "del", it doesn't seem as if it is actually deleting the file. It also doesn't go to my .Trash folder! I have to right click and select "move to wastebasket"...so I would assume "del" removes it...yet that space isn't being recovered.

Is there another trash somewhere? I'm just having trouble beleiveing that for pretty much a bare install (well I have 4 programs or so added on. Cedega, Thunderbird, Matlab, and maybe one or two others) I'm using so much space. The only thing I could think of would be the caching of some files by APT-GET but could that really be gigs of gigs of space? I haven't messed with that so its at default values

 

[fr]

It's still here last time I checked 🙂

 

[P0ldy]

# du -h

 

[n0cmonkey]

Which partition is getting filled up?

 

[magomago]

ummm root partition...My linux drive is one big 30 gig partition....I hope that asnwered what you were asking

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: magomago
ummm root partition...My linux drive is one big 30 gig partition....I hope that asnwered what you were asking

It does.

This should show you where the space is being used. After you find out which directory is using all of the space, cd into that directory and do the du command again.
cd / && du -hs *