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I recently wiped my computer to have 14.10 as my only OS. It has 160 GB of storage. That was a month ago. Now, I keep getting prompts that the storage is almost full. And when I look it says I only have 543 MB free. How is this possible? I haven't torrented any large files. I do have Variety to autodownload wallpapers and not erase though.

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on 
/dev/sda1  146G  138G  554M  100%  / 
none 4.0K 0 4.0K 0% /sys/fs/cgroup 
udev 742M 4.0K 742M 1% /dev 
tmpfs 151M 1.1M 150M 1% /run 
none 5.0M 4.0K 5.0M 1% /run/lock 
none 752M 540K 751M 1% /run/shm 
none 100M 80K 100M 1% /run/user –  er –  
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  • There is any number of ways to fill empty space, which makes the question "How is it possible?" rather rhetorical. Can you post the output of df -h to give us some substance. Nov 27, 2014 at 16:40
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    Maybe try run baobab in terminal to see what taking your storage
    – Paul B
    Nov 27, 2014 at 17:01
  • You could try running the Disk Usage Analyser, or Filelight to see what's taking up all that storage space.
    – user292611
    Nov 27, 2014 at 17:36
  • This is the output for df -h @mikewhatever Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 146G 138G 554M 100% / none 4.0K 0 4.0K 0% /sys/fs/cgroup udev 742M 4.0K 742M 1% /dev tmpfs 151M 1.1M 150M 1% /run none 5.0M 4.0K 5.0M 1% /run/lock none 752M 540K 751M 1% /run/shm none 100M 80K 100M 1% /run/user
    – thatoneguy
    Nov 27, 2014 at 17:40
  • silly question, but is your trash empty? Nov 27, 2014 at 18:23

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With the output of df -h, really the problem is the huge usage on the disk sda1.

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on 
 /dev/sda1 146G 138G 554M 100% / 
 none      4.0K    0 4.0K   0% /sys/fs/cgroup 
 udev      742M 4.0K 742M   1% /dev 
 tmpfs     151M 1.1M 150M   1% /run
 none      5.0M 4.0K 5.0M   1% /run/lock
 none      752M 540K 751M   1% /run/shm 
 none      100M  80K 100M   1% /run/user

use disk usage analyser to drill down to the locations that have the biggest files and delete them.

If you are worried about the pop-up coming up while updating the kernel, head over to removing old kernels - It saved me from the pop-ups.

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  • Do you happen to have any idea what the space is being used by? I don't have any music saved locally.
    – thatoneguy
    Nov 27, 2014 at 18:34
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    @thatoneguy - You can find what it is used by using disk space analyzer. The problem for me to predict what your hard disk is being used for is - I cann't access it.
    – Srihari
    Nov 27, 2014 at 18:42
  • +1 for Disk usage analyzer (baobab), shows you exactly what's what
    – Xen2050
    Dec 5, 2014 at 0:08
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Start with installing Ubuntu tweak, and clean all no longer needed files.

Go to the terminal and type or copy:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:tualatrix/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-tweak 

run the program ubuntu-tweak

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  • I thought I read that ubuntu-tweak was not recommended anymore, too many unstable systems resulting from it's use
    – Xen2050
    Dec 3, 2014 at 4:10
  • I used it since ubuntu 10.04 and i had never problems. It is very safe. You can use also bleach bit (it is in the repository) - but first use ubuntu tweak and afterwards bleach bit as user. If the problem persist use bleach bit as root. Dec 4, 2014 at 9:41
  • That's good news... there's always someone saying "don't do this, it's bad" about non-standard repo's, ppa's, tweak-type programs... non-debian repos, non-stable debian repos... pre-compiled bins, actually everything that's not made yourself in slackware I guess? haha
    – Xen2050
    Dec 5, 2014 at 0:07

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