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Situation: Home partition, 7.69 Gigs, supposedly remaining (given by Conky and nautilus), 1.28 Gigs, when I do disk usage analyzer it shows 2.9 gigs used for my home partition....when I ...
  1. 12-11-2009 #1
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    Missing Space...Again

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    Home partition, 7.69 Gigs, supposedly remaining (given by Conky and nautilus), 1.28 Gigs, when I do disk usage analyzer it shows 2.9 gigs used for my home partition....when I highlight everything in my home folder (including hidden folders) and go to properties, shows 2.9 Gigs total....where in the world is the rest of my space?
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    Have you cleared apt-get cache?
    Code:
    df -h
sudo apt-get clean all
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    I find ncdu to be quite helpful for tracking down files hogging disk space.

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    So weird....as to Devil's response, clear all says no command found, doesn't work at all.

    reed9 thanks for the tip, I finally said screw it and formatted my home partition, miraculously I am now at 4.5 gigs available (where I'm supposed to be), despite having copied/pasted my home folder to a backup location.....I suspect it was deleting things with super user that caused the issue...but not positive
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    My mistake !

    Its clean all instead of clear all.
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    ohhh, yeah I had run that command immediately, didn't fix it....so weird
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