Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > On Wed 08 Aug 2007 21:31:15 NZST +1200, Reg wrote: > > > Actually, there is a trivial way to find the path of the directory > containing the big stuff: disregard the previous advice of using > human-readable numbers, then sort by number. The command pipe is: > > du -k /home | sort -nr | more > > The numbers in column 1 are in kilobytes. Each line contains one > directory; remember that the given size includes everything in that > directory (so summing up column one unfortunately does not give you your > disk capacity ;) ). From the first few lines the culprit can be quickly > determined. > > Volker
I used the above command and found the mystery files at /home/reg/.local/share/Trash/files I don't understand why they did not show up in trash bin, but now safely deleted all 8 gig of them and I now have 16gig of free space in /home so all sorted finally. Thanks to all for your input. Follow on question now about partitions: If I have one 19 gig partition that is /home and one 12 gig partion that is / and one 8 gig partition that is windows, am I now stuck with these sizes? Its been a couple of months since I booted into XP on this machine, so If I wanted to could I get rid of the XP partition and reclaim that space by adding it to my /home partition? And could I if I wanted to shrink the 12 gig / partition and expand the /home partition that way? If so how would I proceed? Or is that just asking for trouble? Regards Reg
