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Help! I have Ubuntu 14.04 dual booted with Windows 7, I was using Ubuntu and writing files from one drive to another, however I didnt realise that I would soon run out of disk space on my laptop hard drive (the destination for the copy). I left the copy to it and came back to a message saying that my disk space was low. I cancelled the copy and got to a command line, moved the files to an external drive so they were off the laptop drive. However, I rebooted and Ubuntu wouldnt get passed the splash screen.

I edited the advanced options in Grub and got a text login screen. I logged in and can see my directories. I ran

df -h

and can see that /dev/sda5 shows as 100% used and no free space. I cant work this out, as I moved all the files, so are they stuck in a tmp directory somewhere?

I tried

sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get autoremove

and that didnt help matters. I deleted some files from my downloads folder (there wasnt much in there to begin with, but some large files) and I've freed up about 45M.

Anywhere else I should be looking. I've tried a few commands to search for large files...

sudo find / -size +50M -ls

but its not showing anything of significance. Any help appreciated.

Edit:

Full output of df -h and fdisk -l as follows: enter image description here

  • What is the complete output of df -h and sudo fdisk -l? – Wilf Jun 01 '14 at 16:38
  • updated with pic - apols its not plaintext, its on the laptop and i'm using another pc to post this –  Jun 01 '14 at 16:45

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Try to follow this in recovery mode:

How to find the biggest directories in my hard drive?

It will help you find big files/folders and clean stuff up.

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  • this is awesome, thanks Mew. The issue was in my home folder, as expected and I found some weird, large files (+1GB) so removed those and things looking as expected now. Top stuff, I've favourite that link for future –  Jun 01 '14 at 16:58