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I am using Debian Wheezy, I get constant notifications: 0 bytes left (i cannot download anything, so notifications are not erraneous). Disk Usage Analyzer shows only 13.2GB of files. Gparted shows 224GB used and 54GB free (Root Partition). After I live booted with Ubuntu14.04, I checked the properties of the partition, which showed Total Contents:13GB only, but again Gparted gave same results. I have also encountered the nautilus bug, which caused the kcore file in /proc to show as 140.7TB. (reboot won't help at all).

Result of df -h:

Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
rootfs          273G  220G   40G  85% /
udev             10M     0   10M   0% /dev
/dev/sda2       273G  220G   40G  85% /
tmpfs           197M  728K  196M   1% /run
tmpfs           5.0M     0  5.0M   0% /run/lock
tmpfs           794M   84K  794M   1% /run/shm
/dev/sr0        456M  456M     0 100% /media/cdrom0
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  • You need to give more information. Edit your post to show the output of df -h. Jul 3, 2014 at 9:00
  • @garethTheRed : done
    – vsamarths
    Jul 3, 2014 at 10:00

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Try running:-

du -hxP <dir> | grep '[0-9]M'

to find files and folders that have a size in Megabytes. It will take a long time to run. The x option makes it stay on one file system (so that it doesn't try to add up /proc for example) therefore you'll need to run it against the mount point of each mounted partition that you wish to check.

Run it as root in order to get a more accurate result.

Note: It'll take a while to run!

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  • Thanks a lot @garethTheRed, searched for G instead of M, got a 140GB x error file, not sure how it got generated.
    – vsamarths
    Jul 3, 2014 at 10:37
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Try:

du ~ -H | sort -n -r| less

It will show you the biggest files at the top and will sort by size all from your home folder.

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