9 Nov
2018
9 Nov
'18
8:21 p.m.
On Fri, Nov 09, 2018 at 07:30:49PM +0000, Bev Nicolson wrote:
- Noticing that this PC gets glacially slow occasionally (it probably means
get a new one and soon but bear with me for the moment) I had a look at the hard disk. 77 GB is 84.4% full. I have two partitions though. One 'extended partition', the other a swap partition. Both 3.1 GB. Could I unmount the first (extended partition) safely?
- What is it full of and how could I clear stuff out, again, safely?
To see where space is being used open a terminal window and do:-
sudo du -xk --max-depth=1 /
This will show you the amount of space used by each root level directory, you can then dig further to see whether there is any wasted space anywhere.
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Chris Green