Disk space

[chroncile]

My disk space is running low >
I want to get rid of my older updates because they are taking all of the disk space, I only have 913.1 MB out of 4.4GB(80% used)
This is not fair, I want to install games but I can't because kubuntu is taking up all of my disk space >
Please help me

[dibl]

Re: Disk space

You didn't make much space for Kubuntu! I just checked, and mine is using 3.3 out of 10GB for the root partition -- I have my data on its own /home partition. So, you can search this forum and Ubuntu Forum and Google for cleanup techniques -- one I know of is

sudo apt-get autoclean autoremove

to clean up the residuals from packages that were previously removed, or dependencies no longer required. But fundamentally you don't have enough space to do a lot, regardless of how efficiently you use it. :P

[Snowhog]

Re: Disk space

Might also be informative to know just how much space is actually available and used for the system.

Open a console and type:

df -h -T

and post the results.

[penguin.ch]

Re: Disk space

In addition to Snowhog's suggestion: try sudo apt-get clean to get rid of packages cached by APT (further reading).

[ezsit]

Re: Disk space

The command: du can also be used to see the disk usage of individual directories or entire filesystems. At the command prompt, type

du /var/cache/apt

will give you a breakdown of how much space is used by the cache files apt stores when you install software through apt-get, aptitude, or adept manager.