Size of a folder, how i can make it bigger?

What is the output of :

lsb_release -a; uname -a; df -h; dpkg -l | grep linux-image

Thanks

I don't understand andrew... I have to input the above on terminal? I recently installed ubuntu 12.04 and when installing I choosed the entire disk 320 GB to use ubuntu so I have lots of space for pictures, last night I created another folder but its has only 10 MB !!! How I can use 'unlimited' space in my folders?

Cris,

We need more information to be able to help and the command Actionparsnip has given you will help us diagnose what's wrong.

You need to open a terminal which you can do by either searching for "terminal" in the dash or by pressing CTRL, ALT and T at the same time.

Copy the command into the terminal

lsb_release -a; uname -a; df -h; dpkg -l | grep linux-image

Then copy all the output and paste it back here. We can then advise further.

Thanks for your reply.
This was the output:

No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 12.04.4 LTS
Release: 12.04
Codename: precise
Linux Computer 3.11.0-19-generic #33~precise1-Ubuntu SMP Wed Mar 12 21:16:27 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 290G 3.8G 272G 2% /
udev 1.8G 4.0K 1.8G 1% /dev
tmpfs 354M 852K 353M 1% /run
none 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
none 1.8G 172K 1.8G 1% /run/shm
ii linux-image-3.11.0-15-generic 3.11.0-15.25~precise1 Linux kernel image for version 3.11.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-image-3.11.0-19-generic 3.11.0-19.33~precise1 Linux kernel image for version 3.11.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-image-generic-lts-saucy 3.11.0.19.18 Generic Linux kernel image

And now I have found that all the pictures I downloaded from the celphone to the a desktop folder that i created are missing.
I guess happened after I did the first system update (drivers, etc)... oh my. I know they are somewhere, seems also that the guest user i was using disappeared (!!!) and the users guests changed their names too... hows that...?!?!

Anyway ... came here to learn how to increment folder sizes and now more than 1000 pictures are missing inside my ubuntu...

also found this output after reading https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LiveCdRecovery in order to try to understand something...

ls /mnt
bin etc lib media root srv var
boot home lib32 mnt run sys vmlinuz
cdrom initrd.img lib64 opt sbin tmp vmlinuz.old
dev initrd.img.old lost+found proc selinux usr

You are not low on space anywhere. Were you writing to a removable storage like USB drive?

No no, like I wrote in the 1st post I was downloading the pics from the celphone to a folder I created in desktop ubuntu (I tried before downloading to the pictures folder inside home but it had a limit of 1.8gb) so the new folder in the desktop had only 1.8gb limit...

I created a second folder in desktop and this new one had even less memory... its like I'm only allowed 1.8gb in total of space... and now the folder I created is gone with all the pictures.

This version of ubuntu seems not so steady like ones I had b4 maybe is due to the fact I installed in a new laptop I suppose ... cause this laptop had win8 pre installed and all the drivers for the video card, brightness, touch pad, etc could be that the instable behavior due to the hardware as well?

I think the clue to your problem is this:

"seems also that the guest user i was using disappeared (!!!) and the users guests changed their names too... hows that...?!?!"

You have to be aware that the "Guest" login is just what is says, a temporary one-off login, with everything from that user removed after logoff. Very much like the kiosk functionality that you would expect on a public internet cafe.

If you want to store files, you have to use a named user.

Manfred i wasnt aware of the guest behavior after logoff. So where the files are sent when a logoff is made in the guest volatile/temporary environment profile? I managed to install photorec and sort the type of files i lost but along with that came other thousands of same type files from the erased win8 i had b4. Where is it? Is there a way to do a search like DOS environment: i.e.: search *.bmp or *.raw ... so on?

If you run :

sudo updatedb

And let it finish (may take a while) you can use the 'locate ' command to search quickly to find filenames