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https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=1pljOCSln5zwNsQO5gcv5Kx1qNM7KH-Uh

Please refer to the above link. My 19GB / partition is 100% full. I understand that root / partition /dev/sda8 is filled, but I guess I was expecting partition /dev/sda6 to get filled because that's where it shows 80GB space. I'm unable to install anything now.

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karel
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Malika Arora
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  • search in your home for big files like VM's or videos and mv then to another harddrive. – nobody Aug 19 '20 at 13:32
  • But isn't that just a temporary fix? – Malika Arora Aug 19 '20 at 13:55
  • @MalikaArora That comment is indeed a temporary fix as you commented and it won't solve the problem. – karel Aug 19 '20 at 14:06
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    When you installed Ubuntu, you did not select to use "Partition 6" as your /home, but you can do it manually afterwards. You need to mount "Partition 6" manually first, then move your /home to "Partition 6" and then set up mount on startup using fstab. See linked answer – pLumo Aug 19 '20 at 14:07
  • where is your /dev/sda6 mounted ? I don't see it anywhere in the "df" output you provided. So how do you expect the system to use it if it's not mounted anywhere? – raj Aug 19 '20 at 14:08
  • If your system is 17.04 or later reinstalling would solve all your problems because new installations of 17.04 and later use a swap file instead of a swap partition. Deleting the unecessary swap partition would put sda6 next to sda8 and you could merge sda6, swap and sda8 into a single 124GB partition for the new Ubuntu installation. – karel Aug 19 '20 at 14:11
  • I realized that my root directory was wrong. I took the backup of my files, cleared the partitions and reinstalled Ubuntu. It works fine now. – Malika Arora Aug 20 '20 at 08:06

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