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okay! I have a few questions. Well I'm running Slackware 10 on like a 30gb harddrive which I installed from a 4gb harddrive which had 2 partitions / and swap. I used a live cd to mount and copy etc. The 30gb harddrive I split for OpenBSD and for Linux where I have on my linux partitions
I'm wondering how can I find out what's taking up all the space on my /home partition? I've installed a few programs since I've copied it over from the 4gb harddrive to the 30gb harddrive but only system wide. I don't understand why my /home partition is filling up. Everthing I've installed or downloaded I've deleted. I've noticed that in the /home/ntrudaglich/.local/share/Trash/files/* all the files that I've installed, downloaded, and deleted show up there(but not exactly), or is being referenced there. I've tried deleting the files from /home/ntrudaglich/.local/share/Trash/files/* with no luck they still remain. Could that be whats taking up space? If, so what can I do about this and to prevent this from happening again?
Thanks,
ntrudaglich
Last edited by ntrudaglich; 06-28-2007 at 04:52 AM.
Fixed it. I was trying to rm -rf as a user but as root it worked.
Nice. It'd also be helpful if you edited the thread so it's title started with "[SOLVED]" or something. Makes it easier for other users to see what problems are solved.
Be careful when using "rm -rf". Accidents DO happen
Nice. It'd also be helpful if you edited the thread so it's title started with "[SOLVED]" or something. Makes it easier for other users to see what problems are solved.
not really, as that only changes the first post title, not the thread title.
Aren't these files the result of deleting files from the file manager (Nautilus, I think)? If so, emptying the trash can from the file manager should delete these files without you having to go in there manually with the command line. I don't remember if there were trash can settings on how large it can be, but that's worth looking into.
Aren't these files the result of deleting files from the file manager (Nautilus, I think)? If so, emptying the trash can from the file manager should delete these files without you having to go in there manually with the command line. I don't remember if there were trash can settings on how large it can be, but that's worth looking into.
Actually I deleted these files from the desktop as well as konqueror. I'm using kde, but I also had emptied the Trash but these files where in /home/ntrudaglich/.local/share/Trash/files.
Aren't these files the result of deleting files from the file manager (Nautilus, I think)? If so, emptying the trash can from the file manager should delete these files without you having to go in there manually with the command line. I don't remember if there were trash can settings on how large it can be, but that's worth looking into.
hmm, I was using gnome and then switched to xfce, so maybe gnome would have cleaned these out when they got too large. I'm not sure.
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