[Wolves] Making space in root in Ubuntu

[Alex Willmer]

Paul Harrison wrote:
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> I just did an upgrade to Dapper.  It was almost scuppered by a lack of
> space.  I've got Ubuntu, Kubuntu & Xubuntu desktops installed, and the
>  6.5GB root partition choked on login.
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I've been tracking Dapper updates a while now. I freed up a few hundred 
meg by looking at installed packages, sorted by disk usage in Synaptic 
packager manager. The non essential ones were mainly defunct kernels & 
their sources.

An excellent way of visualising used filesystem space quickly, is the 
Treemap. This is implemented in Baobab:

http://www.marzocca.net/linux/baobab.html


There is an Ubuntu package.

Regards

Alex