Thread: Making room and hard drive problems

in system monitor showing / partition 99% full, had installed both kde , xfce desktops try 'em out, after seeing figured better remove hem make more room. opened synaptic package manager selected them both , ones came them "completely remove" removed lot of games i'll never use, re booted. when checked system monitor again still 99% full if nothing had been removed. pulled disk usage analyzer , found strange things, /log taking 9+ gig, windoz xp partition mounted @ /media , taking 4+ gig (fresh non updated install). in system monitor windoz xp partition shown "blkfuse" instead or "ntfs" (from recollection), unmounted , can't remount)

here's questions; how can safely determine , remove log files taking space?

why after removing stuff did no more free space?

why windoz partition taking room on ubuntu root partition?

shouldn't windoz partition mount @ "/mount" "ntfs" , not register taking space on ubuntu partition , if how fix this?

i think windows , maybe others use fuseblk system.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/filesystem_in_userspace

deleting not free space moved trash.

housecleaning:

howto: recover lost disk space - drs305
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1122670
howto: cleaning unnecessary junk files...
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=140920
caution deborphan delete manually installed. see comment:
better use synaptic select ones no longer want. notified dependencies removed , can reconsider, if need be.
http://lifehacker.com/5817282/what-k...on-my-linux-pc

housekeeping:
sudo apt-get update #resync package index
sudo apt-get upgrade #newest versions of packages, update must run first
sudo apt-get autoremove #removes depenancies no longer needed
# removes .deb
sudo apt-get autoclean # removes files cannot downloaded anymore (obsolete)
more?
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade #updates dependancies

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

# empty trash
# remove log files if no issues
cd /var/log
sudo rm -f messages.*
sudo rm -v /var/log/*.gz

check files tilde
find $home -type f -name "*~" -print
delete them, have no hidden backups.
find $home -type f -name "*~" -print -exec rm {} \;

#check large files:
sudo du -h --max-depth=1 / | grep '[0-9]g\>' # folders larger 1gb
sudo find / -name '*' -size +1g # files larger 1gb
find . -maxdepth 1 -type d ! -name . -exec du -sh '{}' \; | sort -h
dpkg-query -wf '${installed-size}\t${package}\n' | sort -n
gksudo nautilus /root/.local/share/trash/files # sure enable viewing of hidden files.

trash
here these files reside.

* ~/.local/share/trash user's trash (hardy , later)
* ~/.trash user's trash (pre-hardy)
* /root/.local/share/trash system trash (hardy , later)
* /root/.trash system trash (pre-hardy):
* /.local/share/.trash-1000 ntfs/fat32/etc: trash deleted in these partitions placed in trash bin named in accordance user deleting file, e.g. -1000, 1002, -0, etc

rm -rf ~/.local/share/trash/*
use -ri options, prompts each file deletion safer.

if permission problems try slip sudo in front of commands, sure path correct rm can dangerous command.

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