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Get more space on your HDD

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Migrated to https://ubuntuincident.wordpress.com/2011/02/13/get-more-space-on-your-root-partition/.

Problem

I ran out of space on my root partition. I removed lots of stuff, but it was just a temporary fix.

Solution

First, run Disk Usage Analyzer to see what occupies much disk space. Try to remove the unnecessary things.

As I only had 2 GB free space on my root partition, here is what I did:

• I had a large NTFS partition that I resized with gparted and cut off a 20 GB partition from it.
• The newly created partition was formatted on ext3 and added to /etc/fstab (here is how to do that).
• I ran Disk Usage Analyzer again to see what to move to the new partition. On the root partition I added a symbolic link to these directories:
  • /usr/share/doc (use cp -pr … to copy the directory with permissions)
  • ~/.cache
  • ~/Dropbox
  • ~/.dropbox
  • ~/.dropbox-dist
  • ~/.dropbox-dist-new
  • ~/dwhelper
  • ~/.kdevduchain
  • ~/.mozilla
  • ~/.mozilla.bak
  • ~/.netbeans
  • ~/.netbeans-derby
  • ~/.netbeans-registration
  • ~/.openoffice.org
  • ~/.thumbnails
  • ~/.wine

End result: 11 GB free space on the root partition :)