My disk space is 100% full, and now my dell how to reset a dell Inspiron 910 netbook does will not open firefox, how do I reset my netbook?

This is not a bug. Ask this on http://ubuntuforums.org

Sorry, I didn't realize this is Ubuntu Answers

You can run:

sudo apt-get clean

to remove temp deb files.

If you can give the output of:

dpkg -l | grep linux-image

I can give a command to remove excess kernels.

You can also ditch openoffice (500Mb installed) and install abiword (12mb installed), if all you use is writer. You can save tonnes of space in Ubuntu, a default install has a LOT of surplus crap i it which not everyone will need or use.

Hi :)

Yes, the first thing is to empty your wastebin. If you can open

System - Administration - "Computer Janitor"

then that can be a huge help. If you can't then AP's answer describes how to do a lot of the janitors tasks straight from the command-line
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UsingTheTerminal#Starting%20a%20Terminal

I would keep OpenOffice (or reinstall it) rather than AbiWord because as an office worker i have to communicate with MicroSquish Office users a lot. With AbiWord you can "Save as..." the hopelessly flawed ".doc" format, just as Gnumeric can "Save As .." to ".xls". However neither allows you to default to those easily virus-infested formats. OpenOffice does, so it makes things a LOT easier for me. Although i have managed to get a couple of people to replace MicroSquish Office with OoO there's not enough to make me able to stick with the very safe ".odt" & ".ods" formats. It's crazy. You would almost think that someone makes a profit from making sure virus can survive despite their apparent best efforts!

During boot-up do you get the grub menu offering lots of choices for booting into Ubuntu? If so then choose the option that has "recovery mode" near the end. It's usually the 2nd option. This should take you to a menu on a disturbingly blue screen with the option "Clear some space" which does the janitors work & a little more i think.

Good luck and regards from
Tom :)

Hi again :)

Err, if you could get to a command-line and give us the output from

sudo fdisk -l

where "-l" is a lower-case "-L" then it might (hopeflly) show up some unused space we could use more usefully. It's a long-shot but worth seeing if there's any mileage in it.

Good luck and regards from
Tom again :)

sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get autoclean

to see if you get any free space type

df

you can post output of that command here

df -h

is better, it translates the raw bits into some readable form

Well, there's a bug that may prevent you from seeing the size of the trash can, and by default the trash can WILL fill up the hard drive! To make it worse, they have misplaced the Disk Usage Analyzer under Applications instead of Administration. BEFORE you start to remove applications, Disk Usage Analyzer will help you see where the problem is, and is not subject to the bug that I mentioned.

The quickest way to reclaim disk space is just to empty the garbage.

Umm, well it isn't the garbage, because I've emptied it soo many times. I've deleted ALL of my pictures and documents and pretty much everything on there.
I tried to delete applications, but it never let me :/
But I aven't tried the disk usage analyzer, I'll try that (:

Can you give the output of:

uiname -a; dpkg -l | grep linux-image

Thanks

Hi again :)

Please boot-up a LiveCd using any Ubuntu Cd
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LiveCD

Err, if you could get to a command-line and give us the output from

sudo fdisk -l

where "-l" is a lower-case "-L" then it might (hopefully) show up some unused space we could use more usefully. It's a long-shot but worth seeing if there's any mileage in it.

Good luck and regards from
Tom again :)