When I delete a any program or file on Ubuntu, the C disk space does not increase on Windows 10. How can I delete unnecessary Ubuntu files to increase the disk space?
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Previously, I have installed Windows 7 on my 320 GB laptop with three partitions 173, 84 and 63 GB each. The 63 GB partition was where the Windows was installed. The rest were for file containers.  Now I changed my OS to Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. I installed Ubuntu by replacing the entire Windows 7 on the 63 GB partition. The rest of the partitions remain as an NTFS Windows partition and I can still access them both (the 173 and 84 GB partitions).  Now I want to change the two partitions of Windows into an Ubuntu format partitions plus most importantly, I want to extend the 63 GB partition to more than a 100 GB because at the moment I am running out of disk space. Whenever I try to install any application, especially using wine, it always complains for a shortage of disk space.  How do I do the extending activity before I entirely format my laptop again and lose all the important files on my partitions?
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I am dual-booting Windows 7 and Ubuntu, both installed on separate partitions. I don't need Ubuntu anymore. How can I remove the Ubuntu partition(s) and add the reclaimed space to my Windows 7 partition for saving files in Windows?
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I want to completely remove Ubuntu from my system. But if I delete the partition, the Grub files will be deleted and that will leave me "Bootloader-less". How can I workaround this?
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I am trying to grow my C: drive to use the unallocated space on Disk 0. Is it safe to throw away the Recovery Partition (i.e. make it unallocated)? And if so, is GParted an ok tool to do that with? Or do I need to move that, and if so, is the way to do that to reduce the size of the unallocated partition so there is empty space at the end, then move it there?
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New Ubuntu user here... I have Ubuntu on my 250GB SSD and I have another 500GB on my laptop that Ubuntu can't find. I'm not sure where or how to start finding it.
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Using Ubuntu 11.10, I accidentally deleted a file that was approximately 700 MB. I tried to find it in the in following locations, but couldn't:  /home/user/.local/share /home/user/ &lt;-- there was no folder .Trash /home/user/Desktop/ &lt;-- there was no folder .Trash   So where did .Trash go in Ubuntu 11.10 onward? I use the Gnome environment.
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Currently there is not enough space on by /boot partition/folder and the sofware update can not be performed.   Question: how should I correctly free-up some space in that directory?  Here is the listing:  root@mindaugas-ubuntu-14:/boot# ls -la total 156607 drwxr-xr-x  4 root root     3072 Kov 12 09:37 . drwxr-xr-x 24 root root     4096 Kov 23 23:36 .. -rw-r--r--  1 root root  1163858 Rgs  4  2014 abi-3.13.0-36-generic -rw-r--r--  1 root root  1164720 Grd 16 03:17 abi-3.13.0-44-generic -rw-r--r--  1 root root  1164967 Sau 13 22:12 abi-3.13.0-45-generic -rw-r--r--  1 root root  1164852 Kov 10 22:43 abi-3.13.0-46-generic -rw-r--r--  1 root root   165671 Rgs  4  2014 config-3.13.0-36-generic -rw-r--r--  1 root root   165748 Grd 16 03:17 config-3.13.0-44-generic -rw-r--r--  1 root root   165748 Sau 13 22:12 config-3.13.0-45-generic -rw-r--r--  1 root root   165748 Kov 10 22:43 config-3.13.0-46-generic drwxr-xr-x  5 root root     1024 Kov 12 09:37 grub -rw-r--r--  1 root root 29225220 Rgs 25  2014 initrd.img-3.13.0-36-generic -rw-r--r--  1 root root 29264463 Sau 24 20:22 initrd.img-3.13.0-44-generic -rw-r--r--  1 root root 29267419 Vas 23 20:30 initrd.img-3.13.0-45-generic -rw-r--r--  1 root root 29268175 Kov 12 09:37 initrd.img-3.13.0-46-generic drwx------  2 root root    12288 Rgs 14  2014 lost+found -rw-r--r--  1 root root   176500 Kov 12  2014 memtest86+.bin -rw-r--r--  1 root root   178176 Kov 12  2014 memtest86+.elf -rw-r--r--  1 root root   178680 Kov 12  2014 memtest86+_multiboot.bin -rw-------  1 root root  3386479 Rgs  4  2014 System.map-3.13.0-36-generic -rw-------  1 root root  3388834 Grd 16 03:17 System.map-3.13.0-44-generic -rw-------  1 root root  3389258 Sau 13 22:12 System.map-3.13.0-45-generic -rw-------  1 root root  3389458 Kov 10 22:43 System.map-3.13.0-46-generic -rw-------  1 root root  5806848 Rgs  4  2014 vmlinuz-3.13.0-36-generic -rw-------  1 root root  5814496 Grd 16 03:17 vmlinuz-3.13.0-44-generic -rw-------  1 root root  5814112 Sau 13 22:12 vmlinuz-3.13.0-45-generic -rw-------  1 root root  5814592 Kov 10 22:43 vmlinuz-3.13.0-46-generic   There was a mention of it here:      $ sudo apt-get remove linux-image-2.6.31-21-generic   but will it delete all the files?
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I installed a dual boot of Ubuntu 16.04 (Windows being my other OS) two months ago to try it out. I want to allot more space to it on my hard drive. I was looking up tutorials, and I noticed that my filesystem names don't look anything like those in the tutorials. For example:  df -h   outputs:    How would I allot more space to Ubuntu (in layman's terms)?
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I had installed Ubuntu inside Windows XP but then I formatted XP and installed Windows 7.   EDIT1: I used Wubi for the same. I want to know which one of the two will solve my problem? creating a virtual disk or resizing root? Also is resizing root possible as the 4GB ext4 partition is already in a NTFS format Hard Drive partition.  At the time of installation I had allocated only 4GB of space to Ubuntu. I want to increase that size as I keep getting a low disk space notification.   I have surfed through a lot of similar questions but this is not a duplicate.  Because I want to know a little about the file systems. In order to solve my problem,do I have to increase the size of root.disk? Or will it be solved by creating a virtual disk?  Also I want to know the difference between creating a virtual disk and just increasing disk space of root.I'm new to Ubuntu so I don't know how the file systems function.  EDIT2:I have created a virtual disk of 10gb ,but I'm still getting the same notification.Is there anyway to install all further applications on the virtual disk I created?
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I have just got a new laptop, It is running Windows 7 Home Premium.  I have shrunk the windows partition to give me some empty space and now I want to install ubuntu.  From Windows my partitions look like:   So now in the ubuntu live cd If I hit install and go manual the partitioner looks like   So I thought I could just select the empty space and be away laughing, but when I hit it I get
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In Windows there’re perhaps only a couple of important folders (by important I mean important in my logical picture of the Windows file system) in the installation drive (in my case C:\). Namely Program Files and Windows. I simply stay away from Windows folder and the “add remove program files” is good enough to handle the program files folder of Windows. Of course there’s a folder named Users where the users (who are not admins) can access only their folders.  Thus there’s a clear picture at some level in my mind of the Windows file system. In Ubuntu, when I reach the location /, there’s a huge list of folders, most of which I have no clue as to what they contain. The /bin folder seems to be the equivalent of the Windows folder in windows. The /usr folder seems like it’s the equivalent of the Users folder in Windows. But even the /home folder looks like it can fit the bill.  Please understand that I do understand, that Ubuntu (Linux) has a different character than that of Windows, i.e., there need not be exact equivalent of Windows functions, in Ubuntu. All I am looking for is a bit more clearer picture of the Ubuntu file system.   This question is a part of a bigger question which I am splitting up to make it more answerable. The original question can be found here:
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I've been building my own Linux distro, and I've stripped the binaries, etc. The system won't use GCC or development tools, as it will be a Chrome kiosk, so it would greatly help if I could strip down the system...  I was wondering, is there a way that I can delete all of the unused system files (like binaries, etc.) by watching what files/libraries are used during runtime? Maybe another method is preferred, but is there a way to accomplish something like this?
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Currently, my internal storage is running low on space.    What can I do besides moving applications to the external memory, as to free up more space, but preserve my current applications and avoid uninstalling?  (Some of them won't be moved)
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I Installed Ubuntu 16.04 LTS next to Windows 10. I decided to increase my Ubuntu partition because I don't have enough space for apps, So i went to Windows 10 and shrink my larger Partition and now I have 50 GB of unallocated space.. So my question is:  How can I safely expand my Ubuntu partion using this unallocated space? I also have a bootable pendrive with Ubuntu .iso
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I need to free space on Windows XP SP3.  Q1) What system folders can be safely delete in case I don't need to have restore points etc?  Q2) Can I delete content from C:\WINDOWS\SoftwareDistribution\Download
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I just installed Ubuntu and it is great.  However, I installed in beside the Windows Vista OS.  I now want to remove Windows in an effort to improve performance.  What is the easiest way to do this?
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Here's my problem  I'm trying to do a cleanup of my hard drive, and I'm constantly seeing this scenario:  (1) Aggregate folder size: I check the folder size viewing properties right clicking the folder  (2) Individual folder/file sizes: I check the individual file/folder sizes belonging to that folder viewing properties on the individual file/folder sizes, and then adding them up (with hidden and system files shown).   These two figures are always different, sometimes by a large margin.   For instance, my C drive now, by method (1), shows a consumed space of 42.4 GB.   However, by method (2), by inspecting the respective files/folders, the total consumed space adds up only to 33.1 GB. This is a 28% discrepancy (over the smaller file size) and I have no idea where the rest of the space is going.   My hard drive is constantly in danger of being full (it's bootcamp on a mac with 50 GB of partitioned space), and there's not much I've got installed in terms of software, nor do I have large media files like movies, downloads, temp files, application temp files, torrents, etc.   Most of it's just consumed by the files in C:/Windows, but last I checked, I don't know enough to know which files to delete, and I've heard that you really can't do anything about the space boggling winsxs and system32.   Can you guys recommend a starting point to free up disk space?  Thanks!!  Baggio.