freeing disc space

[Lakshmipathi]

hmm..another guess ...If you don't need or use any application then try uninstalling them (For example,say gimp) using Add/Remove options.

[Hal343]

nikolas@nikolas-desktop:~$ du -s /home/yourusername/* | sort -nr | cut -f 2- |xargs -i du -sh {}

should have been:

nikolas@nikolas-desktop:~$ du -s /home/nikolas/* | sort -nr | cut -f 2- |xargs -i du -sh {}

to get the required output
EDIT I also see 2 swap partitions. Only one swap partition is needed, no matter how many distros you run. They will all recognize and use the same one.
EDIT 2 You have definitely run out of space on your /home partition. There are only 495M available. You will have to delete files in order to add anything.

[MikeTbob]

One thing you could do: Delete one of the swap partitions as mentioned above and format it as /home, copy everything from the original /home partition to the new /home and this will free up some space too.

[oz]

niksfree... keep in mind that if you remove or change the mount point for any partitions, you'll need to edit your /etc/fstab file to compensate for the changes to the partition table.

[niksfree]

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