look at mine:

abcsmart@abcsmart:~$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb3 19G 4.3G 14G 24% /
varrun 1010M 148K 1010M 1% /var/run
varlock 1010M 0 1010M 0% /var/lock
udev 1010M 72K 1010M 1% /dev
devshm 1010M 12K 1010M 1% /dev/shm
lrm 1010M 39M 971M 4%
/lib/modules/2.6.24-23-generic/volatile

/dev/sdb1 228M 95M 122M 44% /boot
/dev/sdb6 71G 30G 38G 44% /home
gvfs-fuse-daemon 19G 4.3G 14G 24% /home/abcsmart/.gvfs
/dev/scd0 7.7G 7.7G 0 100% /media/cdrom0
/dev/sda1 29G 28G 263M 100% /media/disk

Im assuming that your /home is in sda1.



abcsmart@abcsmart:~$ sudo fdisk -l
[sudo] password for abcsmart:

Disk /dev/sda: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4865 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x157e157d

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 3824 30716248+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 4714 4865 1220940 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 4714 4865 1220908+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Disk /dev/sdb: 203.9 GB, 203928109056 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24792 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0e1fe4bf

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 30 240943+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdb2 2521 24792 178899840 5 Extended
/dev/sdb3 31 2520 20000925 83 Linux
/dev/sdb5 24514 24792 2241036 82 Linux swap/ Solaris
/dev/sdb6 2521 11857 74999389+ 83 Linux

What is in your /home folder?

You could try looking for large files that may be taking up LOTS of
space. I run the following script on my server weekly via cron to send
me a list of the top 100 largest files. It has been helpful in the past
when a log file got way large due to a runaway process continuing to log
errors, etc.

Here's the cron entry:
0 3 * * 0 /root/admin_stuff/bin/find_big_files > /dev/null 2>&1

Here's the script:
#!/bin/bash
#
# find_big_files: Find the top 100 biggest files & mail results to root
#
DATE=`date`
LOGFILE=/root/admin_stuff/dat/admin_log.log
echo $DATE - Running $0 >> $LOGFILE
find / -depth -print -exec ls -l {} \; | grep -v web | grep -v "disk-"
| grep -v backups | grep -v kcore | grep ./ | sort -n -r -b -k5 | head
-n 100 | /usr//bin/mail -s " Weekly listing of 100 biggest files" root


You may need to tweak it a bit since I skip some files (including my web
site which is about 28GB).

I don't know what is taking up most of my space... I don't think
it's the
Ubuntu installation itself. But something is hogging most of the HDD and
leaving me with only 3.2GB free hard disc space.


There are a couple of utilities that tell you where the file space is being
used. I like Filelight. Another is called gdmap. They give a visual
representation of your drive showing where the files are located and the number
of MBs in each directory.

I would also look at your .tmp, .temp directories, .thumbnails directory, and
trash (.local/share/Trash). Kleansweep is also a good tool for this.

Because you are a new user I wonder if you allocated the space on your
hard drive. Just because you have a large drive means nothing if the
space sits unallocated.

I use the partition editor to play with the space of my hard drive,
this editor is under >system>administration if you don't find it start
the synaptic package manager and install it.

Starting the editor will give you a picture of your hard drive and how
it is set up. If you find this is the problem then allocate some space
to play with and all will be fine.