Free Ubuntu disk space - What’s eating my disk space?

sudo apt-get clean sudo apt-get autoremove sudo apt-get install deborphan sudo deborphan | xargs sudo apt-get -y remove --purge (2 line) sudo reboot (or from VNC console) http://www.ubuntugeek.com/cleaning-up-a-ubuntu-gnulinux-system-updated-with-ubuntu-14-10-and-more-tools-added.html ***************************** The command du "summarizes disk usage of each FILE, recursively for directories: du -hs /path/to/directory http://askubuntu.com/questions/1224/how-do-i-determine-the-total-size-of-a-directory-folder-from-the-command-line Find the top 10 largest files and directories on Ubuntu: sudo du -a / | sort -n -r | head -n 10 http://wiki.ddenis.com/index.php?title=Find_the_top_10_largest_files_and_directories_on_Ubuntu What's eating my disk space? should tell you where the space is consumed: sudo du -x -d1 -h / http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/113840/whats-eating-my-disk-space Cleaning up Ubuntu 14.10,14.04,13.10 system : http://www.ubuntugeek.com/cleaning-up-a-ubuntu-gnulinux-system-updated-with-ubuntu-14-10-and-more-tools-added.html ****************************** Remove "orphaned" packages If you want to remove orphaned packages you need to install deborphan package. Install deborphan in Ubuntu sudo apt-get install deborphan Using deborphan Open Your terminal and enter the following command sudo deborphan | xargs sudo apt-get -y remove --purge ***************************** sudo apt-get autoremove