Low disk space on home partition

[alanrlow]

Hi all, I have Ultimate Edition Ubuntu with a separate home partition of 45gb which I thought would be big enough. But lately, every few days, I have been getting a message saying home partition only had a few hundred mb left or some such. I free up some room only to have it disappear a few days later. Any ideas what is gobbling my space? The cleanup program wasn't particularly helpful as it didn't pinpoint any directory as holding large files. I even had to delete some of my virtualbox disks. I ran computer janitor and uninstalled some unused games but it's still shrinking. Any help appreciated.

Alan.

I have just checked with Gparted and it shows 22gb used of 45gb, less that half and checking file properties of home folder shows 12.4gb used?? WT
So why am I getting the low disk space warnings all the time?

Alan.

[Lakshmipathi]

may be log files ? try searching for file (created less than 24 hours ago )using find command,

find / -ctime 0 -print

if you want, you can add size option too.

that should give you files ,from there you can figure out the application.

[Rubberman]

A number of things can cause a lot of space to be temporarily (or permanently) used in /home. For example, web browsing cache will potentially use a significant amount of space, as well as temporary storage for downloads via web browser.

[alanrlow]

A number of things can cause a lot of space to be temporarily (or permanently) used in /home. For example, web browsing cache will potentially use a significant amount of space, as well as temporary storage for downloads via web browser.

Thanks for the reply, when I first setup the home partition I allocated 20gig and when it filled I resized it to 40gig but it stilled filled up. I will look at the browser cache but I can't imagine it's all of the problem. The tmp directory has few files and temporary downloads like utube videos are automatic deleted when closed. I have downloaded files saved to a different partition as well as my photo and music. I just want to find out what is consuming so much space.

Alan.

[alanrlow]

may be log files ? try searching for file (created less than 24 hours ago )using find command,


if you want, you can add size option too.

that should give you files ,from there you can figure out the application.

Thanks for the reply, I ran the command and got a long list but it left me none the wiser. How do I add the size option? Is there a utility to search for all files and order them by size/ date created etc?

Alan.