Thanks Hans, I could not sleep so I got back up to check this out. Turns out that /usr/lib is5.1 GB and /usr/share is 3.9 GB. Nothing else is very big. Guess I need to uninstall some things or resize the partition. On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 10:50 PM, der.hans wrote: > Am 28. Oct, 2013 schwätzte Dazed_75 so: > > moin moin, > > > On one of my machines I have two partitions for Ubuntu. They are mounted >> as / and /home. I am getting a message saying the root filesystem is >> nearly full. When I run df -h, it shows me that /dev/sda5 is mounted as / >> and had 13.5 GB of 14 GB used. After I cleaned up some old kernels, >> unused >> packages and a couple of other thing, it showed something like 11.5 GB of >> 14 GB used. >> >> My question is: What is the best way to find what else is overcrowding /? >> In other words to do something like run du but restrict it to /dev/sda5. >> >> Sorry, I am on a Windows system ATM. >> > > Try 'du -sh /root /lib* /usr /var /tmp' is a good start. /root should > be small, but can pick up cruft. In your case probably not since it's a > self-adminned system using sudo :). Normally I would also include /boot, > but if you removed old kernel packages that should be rather small. > > Most likely you'll be cleaning out /tmp if you don't boot very often or > something in /var. > > ciao, > > der.hans > -- > # http://www.LuftHans.com/ http://www.LuftHans.com/**Classes/ > # If you don't think for yourself, others will think for you -- > # to their advantage. -- Harold Gordon > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- Dazed_75 a.k.a. Larry Please protect my address like I protect yours. When sending messages to multiple recipients, use the BCC: (Blind carbon copy). Remove addresses from a forwarded message body before clicking Send.