Comments on: Check Disk Space Usage on Ubuntu

By: mayank

mayank — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 08:32:10 +0000

thanks alot. its so useful.

By: Thinesh

Thinesh — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 17:31:11 +0000

How to find the video driver is install.and i need the more command for Ubuntu

Thank You

Thinesh

By: JonathanSeguin

JonathanSeguin — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 18:37:08 +0000

Reg : Is this on a portable device such as a usb stick? Try to go in the menu to “View > Show Hidden Files” (or type ctrl-h).

Can you spot any .Trash folders? (Try to look in the root / top level of your device)

If this fails try creating a file with a special name, deleting it, and then searching for it.

Also, if you want to permanently remove something, simply shift-delete just like in windoze.

Cheers!

By: Reg

Reg — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 14:10:36 +0000

PS to last message;
Typo alert; That should be “fsck”, NOT “fsdk”.

By: Reg

Reg — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 14:06:37 +0000

I have done a Windoze dumb trick that seems to have gotten me in a lot of trouble.
OK, so much for the excuses.

I highlighted a directory in Nautilus and then pressed the delete key.
It APPEARS to have deleted the container(directory) ONLY.
I say this because it was a large(‘ish) directory and the amount of
space freed should have been significant, but there is no change
in the free space of that disk.
Is there a way to delete all (of what were) the underlying directories
and files ?
I have run fsdk from a live CD, it didn’t seem to throw out any “un-owned”
blocks, files or directories.

There is nothing in Trash - maybe a way to get all the abandoned stuff to
trash would be a good first step.

Thanks in advance to anyone able to help (-:

By: awik1212

awik1212 — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 11:50:53 +0000

thanks for sharing sir.
i think there is more interesting to using a linux.
say goodbye to the old friend. )

By: sally whitfield

sally whitfield — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 16:35:24 +0000

I’m loving the switch to Ubuntu and the community is GREAT … unfortunately I have a hard time remembering these handy commands. LOL

By: brijkishor

brijkishor — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 07:13:29 +0000

fdisk -l | grep Disk

By: Guru

Guru — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:44:35 +0000

Guys, it looks like you are installing your Ubuntu on very small partitions. You should probably be careful when you do your installation configuring the disk space that will be available for Ubuntu. I think Ubuntu definitely deserves a little effort on your side -- it will deliver rewards that you can’t imagine yet.

Take a look at this document:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowtoPartition

By: ravi

ravi — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 02:07:46 +0000

Hardware :
motherboard ASUS p5Q-E with 5 Hard disk
HDD0 - 80GB - installed XP SP3
HDD1 - 160GB - installed Vista SP2
HDD2 - 160GB windows 7 RC
HDD3 - want to install UBUNTU 9.04
HDD4 - want to install Mac OS.

i am totally new for linux and MAC, i have no idea about ubuntu and mac os.

once i tried to install ubuntu 9.04 was successed after login
when i try to update “it asks me to free disk space from “/” ” after that i format hdd for the partition to make some space, after that i tried to reboot but never comes up even XP, vista, windows7 nothing worked.

now i installed Xp, Vista and windows7 from scratch.

for install ubuntu and mac os, please help me.

Thank you very much in advance.

By: Ted Muralt

Ted Muralt — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 03:18:38 +0000

Quote previous user comment: “I am totally new to GNU/Linux. I installed Ubuntu 9.04 on a Pentium 4, 256MB/RAM currently running Windows-XP. But I found that when I installed Ubuntu, for some reason it did not ask me for System-Disk-Space. Now that I want to install some Ubuntu-Updates, it asks me to free disk space from “/”, but I do not know how to do this. Can you pleas help? Thanks in advance.”

9.04 has been a real problem starting with me upgrading from 8.10 to 9.04 with and ATI video card. Lost all 8.10 files (system bombed).
Now, the same thing ( as above) happened to me on 2 machines, one xp desktop and one vista laptop. This disk space problem is an other unforgivable oversite. I am hoping that I can uninstall 9.04 on both machines and either go back to 8.10, or just give up on ubuntu.

By: Barboza

Barboza — Tue, 05 May 2009 21:11:26 +0000

I am totally new to GNU/Linux. I installed Ubuntu 9.04 on a Pentium 4, 256MB/RAM currently running Windows-XP. But I found that when I installed Ubuntu, for some reason it did not ask me for System-Disk-Space. Now that I want to install some Ubuntu-Updates, it asks me to free disk space from “/”, but I do not know how to do this. Can you pleas help? Thanks in advance.