Thursday, March 3, 2011

If you are running out of disk space in Ubuntu, you might have files in root trash

I was being alerted to diminishing disk space in /.

I eventually discovered that it was due to my having deleted a large amount of data whilst using sudo nautilus, which wasn't showing up.  The following may be of help:

1) gksudo baobab -- it will tell you if you have anything in the root trash folder

IF SO:

2) gksudo nautilus /root/.local/share/Trash

3) SHIFT+DELETE the files.   If you simply try DELETE, they refuse to go.  (At least in my experience)

That solved it for me.

-- Alex

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