Kubuntu eating up drive :(

[terrordrone]

i have installed linux on a 15gb ext3 partition.. non primary partition.. last partition on my hdd
after a couple of months of usage.. ( not much of it tho ).. i find the drive has taken up 6.1GB of space
i regularly update and install all of them.. (i get excited as i dont get to update my win xp .. as its pirated :P )
Now.. how do i monitor the space usage...
i do not know what files are needed.. what arent..
I am new to linux....

[nejode]

Re: Kubuntu eating up drive

Install KDirStat by adept or sudo apt-get install kdirstat in the command line. It'll show up in the utilities section of your K Menu. It'll show you exactly where your disk space has gone. Be sure to tell the utility to scan your root directory (/) because it defaults to your /home directory.

This page is from Novell but it's very explicit:

http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/feature/15894.html

...hope it helps...

[kubicle]

Re: Kubuntu eating up drive

One thing that commonly takes up disk space are the cached deb packages (package managers save copies of installed/upgraded deb packages in /var/cache/apt/archives

you can clean the cache with commands:

sudo apt-get autoclean

(clear old packages)

sudo apt-get clean

(clear all packages)

[terrordrone]

Re: Kubuntu eating up drive

Thanks for the autoclean command...
are these the only things that i should be concerned about..
im new to linux so i dont know what i can remove and i cannot ( more important )

happy new year bye the year

[kubicle]

Re: Kubuntu eating up drive

are these the only things that i should be concerned about..

You can monitor the disk space used with tools like kdirstat mentioned in the thread, but generally the only (unless there is something very wrong) directories that might need 'grooming' are /var (logs, caches and other constantly changing data) and /home (user data, configurations and the trash bin)

im new to linux so i dont know what i can remove and i cannot ( more important )

General rule 1: If you don't know what you're removing...then don't. If you find something taking a lot of space you can always ask here if it's safe to remove.

General rule 2: Normally it should not be necessary to delete anything manually (except in your home folder)