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no disc space/low graphics mode 10.04

Asked by Peter Maurer

I ran out of disc space last night. This morning when I turned on Ubuntu I found it was running in "low graphics mode." How can I free up some disc space so I can remedy the "low graphics mode" situation?

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Best actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Boot to root recovery mode (hold shift at boot, select recovery mode then select root) and run:

sudo apt-get clean; sudo apt-get --purge remove ubuntu-docs

You can also run:

uname -a; dpkg -l | grep linux-image-2

The first line is your CURRENT kernel. The list are the INSTALLED kernels. If you uninstall the kernels you do not use you can claw back ~120Mb per kernel

Should help

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Peter Maurer (petermaurer1) said : 		#2

Thanks actionparsnip, that solved my question.