If Wim is right, you only have 4 GB, so not much room to put stuff, or use things like beagle.
However, you can use a usb stick to store your documents etc.
You can look in /var/log/* and delete logfiles which are rotated, NOT the original logfiles.
on my system:

You can delete sysog.1 and syslog.2.gz
They are created by logrotate from the original log syslog
Logrotate will rotate the logs every x days/weeks, it will create an empty lgfile, and backup the original, so the logfiles don't get to big.

Should i go through my home/var/log or do it through the command terminal? because when i do it through home/var/log i see all the files but they all have an x on the top corner of them.

I wouldn't invest much time looking into gparted. Really, that box has no more space that gparted could repartition, it doesn't matter what partitioning tool you use. The only real solutions are either to use a smaller distro or to add storage capacity of any kind, or a combination of those both techniques. That's it, besides doing some cleaning.

The command line, you need to be root

Look what you can remove.
In general you have the original file, and a file with same name with a number
Do not delete the original file

what would i be cleaning? i mean i have nothing on here personally. When i went to look for my BIOS, i went under YaST Control center adn then to Hardware Information. I waited for it to probe and then i saw where all my disk space was being used up at. But i have NO idea what those files are and i dont want to delete something of importance.

ok this is going to take a min. its not showing what your wrote so im going to type up what it does say. ill do it as fast as i can

Perhaps one day you can try to get connected to the internet using the notebook.

repo is guiding you through the cleaning of the log files, so that's one thing.

Stuff under /tmp and /var/tmp can also be cleaned, though it should be automatically cleaned on each reboot on most systems, however, check just in case. Nothing in these locations is vital for the system, only temporal files live there. Besides that, there might be some location where suse stores packages that it downloads to install, however I haven't used suse for ages so you would have to ask about that to a suse user.

Deleting the stuff under /usr/src (if anything at all lives there) is also safe, as long as you don't plan to compile your own drivers or kernels. In any case, this can be easily replaced or restored if needed, so it's safe anyway.

For the rest, just be vigilant about the stuff in your home directory. You can also uninstall the programs that you don't use. Just don't uninstall things that you don't know what they are/do, if in doubt, just ask.

It's really a pity that the storage capacity is that limited, otherwise it's a great notebook which can perfectly do what you need it to do.

Oh you mean i can copy and paste what this saids?! OH should i be doing this in the white screened gnome command line?! I am connected to the internet with the netbook!? GUH ya'll must hate me by now haha Ill do that instead!


im such a dork. could have been done much faster im sure!!

i was wondering how ya'll brought those codes up so fast!!! >.<

You can remove
just type
and so on

You need to do this on a regular basis.

Also take a look at
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...2/#post3232993

And follow the suggstions from i92guboj to free up more space.

ok im online via my note book. but thats what i got when i entered the code in the terminal. i have a sandisk usb card and when i insert it in the port it doesnt let me save anything to it. it says it compatible to linux

It is
xfree86.0.log.old

Only remove these files
Type ls to see if you are in the right place, and if you see the files
you can copy/paste the filenames after the command rm or use TAB
type
Then press TAB
it will show
type . press TAB
it will show
type . press TAB
it will show
press enter

Think twice before pressing enter, do I have the right file?