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[ubuntu] Filesystem root out of space

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http://ubuntuforums.org – Hi, sorry if this is the wrong section to post this in. Today I started getting warning messages about the filesystem root running out of space. Now it says this: Low disk space The filesystem root has only 76.9MB disk space remaining. When I got ubuntu a month ago, I assigned the root partition 4GB, because someone said that it would be enough and I only got ubuntu, because programs made in dev c++ under windows weren't compatible with the automatic marking system we have to hand them into at our school. The problem is that I started using ubuntu almost as much as windows an (Hardware)

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Submitted by colm on 10/20/2012

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18GB seems an excessive amount to be using on your root partition. I recommend that (as root) you run du --max-depth=1 -m -x /

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[root@xxxx ~]# du -sm -x / 948 /

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