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[ubuntu] Disk usage analyzer says 344GB used but report only lists 10GB

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http://ubuntuforums.org – Title says most of my problem. I was recently running into warnings saying I was low on disk space. After running the disk usage analyzer I removed some old backups and cleared out some extra space. However it is reporting that my 488GB hard drive is using 344GB but the detailed report only lists the '/' directory as having 10GB used. So my question is where is the other 350+GB being used? I have attached an image of the report as well. (Hardware)

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background and problem: I was getting a disk usage warning (via cpanel) because /var seemed to be filling up on my server. The assumption would be that there was a log file growing too large and filling up the partition.

When I first left the Big Blue OS behind for the world of Linux, I wallowed in guesses over how my disk space was filling up. One thing that was hard to replace from my Windows XP days was the colorful pie chart of disk ingredients that resulted from right-clicking the lettered drive names. Linux offers numerous solutions for guessing at the amount of space consumed.

OKAY. So I know better than to play around and make changes in any other section other than my home folder unless I know exactly what I'm doing and have a good reason to venture into /. So my disk space was getting really low so I used disk analyzer to see where all the space was being taken up and what I could remove.

As system administrator , but also as common user on my PC, one of the more common problem is the fill up at 100% of a filesystem. So, in this article we’ll see 2 commands that can help us in keeping under control or check the space used in every filesystem and in his directory.

df : report file system disk space usage

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