Low disk space error message in 13.04
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| apt (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
Been using Ubuntu for several years now. Started with 11.04, then went to 12.04 and currently running 13.04 on a dedicated 120g drive. I'm not a super user, I have some computer knowledge, but have never had reason to go to the command line in Ubuntu and mess with the system that way. So have no idea how to without step by step instructions by other users.
I tried using a drive clean-up program recommended by other Ubuntu users (BleachBit) and while it got rid of some old temp files etc, it did not solve my problem.
Today, 7-12-2013, I got new error messages related to low disk space and following the prompts it led me to LanuchPad support and other people having the same problems.
The problem with all the other posts is all the command line talk. I've rarely used command line text and can't safely do it atm, without step by step instructions.
Just poking around I found this: From the desktop I clicked on FILES, Then under DEVICES, clicked on COMPUTER. Then clicked on BOOT. I found BOOT is 225mb. My drive is 120g. BOOT has only 13mb free. The largest files within BOOT are 5, 32mb Archives:
initrd.
initrd.
initrd.
initrd.
initrd.
That's 160 MB of Archives. So do I simply delete all but the most recent Archive to free up space? Save the Archive from June28 and delete the rest?
If that is the answer, HOW do I delete those old Archives? Can't see a way to inside the BOOT folder. There's no option to delete files there.
Further info:
You ask under: WE ALSO NEED:
1) The release of Ubuntu you are using. VIA System -> About Ubuntu.
Can't see any way to get to a "System" but in About Ubuntu it says 13.04.
2) Since I don't know how to use command line commands, I went to "Software Center" as suggested, but don't see anything about what package I'm using.
3) What I expected to happen? I expected Ubuntu to automatically delete old no longer needed files from the BOOT partition when updating. Aparently it used to do this until recently. SO who made the decision to stop this from happening and why? Why now?
Which brings to mind something else annoying that was changed recently. Since I often use TOR, under 13.04 when you click TOR's RUN command, it does nothing because the default to actually ASK a user if they really wanted to RUN something was changed. So I had to get into the systems guts using others step by step instructions in order to RESTORE my ability to RUN something. Dafuq?
4) Old uneeded files are no longer being automatically deleted upon updates. So now need to be manually deleted. So how about some step by step instructions guise? Srsly guise, guise, srsly.
