Re: [ALUG] Hard disk drive partitions and memory

On Fri, 2018-11-09 at 20:21 +0000, Chris Green wrote:

On Fri, Nov 09, 2018 at 07:30:49PM +0000, Bev Nicolson wrote:

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1. 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?

2. 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.

May I commend JDiskReport to the assembled multitudes?

http://www.jgoodies.com/freeware/jdiskreport/