How to increase disk space?

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How do I free up disk space?

I am running out of space on my notebook, so I thought I would delete some unused stuff.

I was thinking about:

cleaning the home folder as explained in: Cleaning up my Home Directory
removing old logs from /var/log
removing apt cache

Any other ideas?

You may also find useful information here: http://askubuntu.com/questions/17467 — Takkat, Apr 07 '11 at 11:08

score 11 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 07 '11 at 10:05

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Remove old kernel packages (leave the latest one or two). I'd suggest something like Synaptic for this and you want to search the Installed section for linux-image and linux-headers.

The linux-image and linux-headers for each kernel version combines to about 200MB of disk space. On an old system that has gone through a lot of updates, this can easily give you back a few gigabytes of space.

answered Apr 07 '11 at 10:05

Oli

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This has also a nice side-effect of having a smaller boot menu. I smiled when I saw two screens of kernels (at the GRUB boot menu) at a friend :p – Lekensteyn Apr 07 '11 at 13:32

score 5 · Answer 2 · edited Jan 07 '12 at 18:03

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A sudo apt-get clean will remove cached .debs that are sitting on disk from updates.

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answered Apr 07 '11 at 13:41

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score 3 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 07 '11 at 09:37

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I usually remove

apps I don't use
usused fonts, themes and icons

answered Apr 07 '11 at 09:37

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score 3 · Answer 4 · answered Apr 07 '11 at 09:52

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You could also identify files that you don't often use and compress them. In particular, plain text files that are GZipped can still be read via the terminal with less.

answered Apr 07 '11 at 09:52

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