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A sudden drop in free disk space

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I'm using Ubuntu 11.04. Today I suddenly started to get "low disk space" warnings. When I checked, I saw that free space on my Ubuntu partition is decreased like 2 or 3 gigabytes. I didn't install anything recently and I don't keep my files in my Ubuntu partition.

What could be the reason for this?

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answered 2 Years ago oileweaty · Accepted Answer

I found this to be a problem for me caused by log files building up.

logrotate is run as part of cron.daily which by default runs at 6:25 which is quite possible that your machine is never on at this time.

So I would start by checking /var/log disk usage.

If it is that, you can fix it by editing /etc/crontab and changing it to run cron.daily at 9:25 instead (or a time you know your machine is often on).

There is an application called "Disk Usage Analyser" installed by default. Use that on the whole filesystem.